BETHEL PARK, Pa. – The Secret Service should have foreseen a “tactical reason” to have countersnipers placed on the AGR building rooftop at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday – where gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire – according to a retired Army infantry captain who witnessed the chaos from the front row. “I’ve...
A former SWAT commander balked at the “audacity” of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle blaming the “sloped roof” for not positioning snipers on the building where Thomas Crooks opened fire at Saturday’s rally for former President Trump. Gene Petrino, who served as the SWAT commander for Florida’s Plantation Police Department for 26 years and is...
PITTSBURGH – EXCLUSIVE – Former President Trump on Thursday called the family of James Copenhaver, one of the victims who was critically wounded after being shot at Trump’s rally in Butler on Saturday. Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, was upgraded from critical to serious on Wednesday, and he has been communicative over the last couple...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A local GOP volunteer who helped set up and later attended former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend, said he and other activists raised concerns the night prior about the venue’s security. Zach Scherer, a volunteer firefighter from Chicora – a short drive northeast of the Butler Farm Show...
A pregnant 16-year-old female was found dead in a wooded area in Georgia early Monday and her ex-boyfriend has been arrested for lying to police, local law enforcement says. Mia Campos’ body was discovered at around 1 a.m. just off a roadway in the 3600 block of Stephens Road in Loganville, about 25 miles east...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source. It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was...
BUTLER, Pa. – The Butler Township manager, Thomas Knights, defended local police officers’ response to the assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally on Saturday. Knights’ comments come amid some sparring between the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Fraternal Order of Police as both federal and local law enforcement take criticism from...
Six people including two Vietnamese Americans have been found dead in a Bangkok luxury hotel in Thailand and police say they died from cyanide poisoning with one of them believed to have poisoned the others over a bad investment, Thai authorities said Wednesday. The grisly discovery was made by a maid on Tuesday just after...
PITTSBURGH – David “Jake” Dutch, one of the two victims critically wounded by gunshots at the Trump rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, walked down the bleachers with a T-shirt bunched up against his wounds before getting help, friends told Fox News Digital. Dutch, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991,...
Still shaken by the shocking attempt made on his father’s life, Eric Trump is demanding answers. “The director of the Secret Service needs to be asked some really pointed, really hard questions, because that cannot happen again,” Eric Trump toldFox News Digital. “Whether it’s that local assets dropped the ball or an oversight, I don’t...
