Gunman Crawled Up on Nearby Roof Before Shooting at Trump, Witnesses Say

A witness has described the unfathomable security lapse that led up to the apparent shooting attempt on Donald Trump at a rally Saturday evening, saying he repeatedly tried to alert cops to the existence of a rifle-wielding man on a rooftop just outside the event.

The unnamed man told BBC that he was having a party outside the rally and was planning to walk up through a nearby field and listen to Trump when he started speaking. But as he was walking up, about five minutes into Trump’s speech, “We noticed a guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us.”

The man clearly had a rifle, the witness said, so he started trying to alert nearby cops and Secret Service agents who were stationed on the ground and on the roof of a barn.

Read more at The Daily Beast.