The district attorney of Butler County, Pennsylvania, Richard Goldinger, has refuted claims that local snipers were responsible for monitoring the rooftop where a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Trump. This statement comes in response to acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe's testimony at a Senate hearing regarding the shooting incident in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Goldinger clarified that the local snipers, who were present at the July 13 rally, were assigned to a window with a different vantage point than the one highlighted by Rowe during his testimony. He explained that the snipers from the Butler and Beaver ESU teams were positioned on the second floor of a building adjacent to where the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was located. Their assigned windows did not provide a view of the roof of the AGR building where Crooks carried out the attack.
