Northeast
Trump assassination attempt: Newly uncovered footage shows figure on roof seconds before gunfire
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A deep dive into the recently released bodycam footage of the attempted assassination of former President Trump appears to show the shooting suspect walking on top of a roof just minutes before he managed to fire off his deadly rounds at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month.
The newly unearthed footage sheds further light on the assassination attempt and the seconds leading up to the July 13 shooting.
When stabilized and zoomed in, one of the bodycam clips released by Butler Township Police Department shows a shadowy figure emerging on top of the American Glass Research (AGR) complex building at 6:08 p.m.
ATTEMPTED TRUMP ASSASSIN SEEN WALKING AROUND PENNSYLVANIA RALLY HOURS BEFORE OPENING FIRE
New video appears to show Thomas Matthew Crooks, top right, on a roof before his attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, left. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, left, Iron Clad USA, middle, Butler Township Police Department, to right, Fox News, bottom right. )
The police officer whose bodycam captures the figure is walking in a green area on the east side of the AGR complex, near the water tower, when his body camera captures who is believed to be Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, roof-hopping and making his way to the southernmost structure of the complex.
Another figure, likely a police officer, can be seen walking on the ground in the opposite direction of Crooks and appears unaware that the shooter is on the roof, the footage shows.
In the intervening minutes, the police officer can be seen communicating with other officers and then patrolling the adjoining car park. His bodycam does not have sound.
As the figure on the roof disappears again, the officer’s bodycam footage strikes 6:09 p.m., meaning Crooks took about two and a half minutes to set himself up and shoot at Trump and the other attendees, based on timestamps from other police bodycam footage.
![Buildings that are adjacent to The Butler Farm Show, site of a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump,](https://newspub.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1724555003_128_Trump-assassination-attempt-Newly-uncovered-footage-shows-figure-on-roof.jpg)
The AGR Building where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired his shots. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The FBI has previously stated that Crooks accessed the roof of a building by climbing up HVAC equipment and piping. Crooks then traversed multiple rooftops before he found his shooting position on top of a building about 150 yards from where the former president spoke at his rally.
Investigators have determined that Crooks purchased a ladder hours prior to the assassination attempt, but he left it at his residence in Bethel Park and did not use the ladder at the rally. No ladder was found at the scene.
The newly uncovered video corroborates Crooks’ timeline in a video by James Copenhaver, one of the victims shot. That video also shows a figure maneuvering on the rooftop.
Crooks got off eight shots while trying to take out Trump, according to a preliminary report released by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., last week.
TRUMP SHOOTING: TIMELINE OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW GUNMAN EVADED SECURITY
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A new video from James Copenhaver, one of the victims critically wounded in a July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump, shows a figure moving across a rooftop just minutes before gunfire rang out at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (James Copenhaver)
One bullet grazed Trump’s right ear, while firefighter Corey Comperatore was fatally struck. Rally-goers James Copenhaver and David Dutch were also shot and injured.
Another shot was fired by a Butler SWAT operator from the ground, about 100 yards away from the AGR building. The shot hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face and shoulder area due to the stock breaking up, Higgins said.
Another shot was fired by the southern Secret Service counter-sniper team, which entered Crooks’ left mouth area and exited the right ear area.
Chilling new video has also just been released showing Crooks casually walking through a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly two hours before the shooting.
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Chilling new video has been released showing Thomas Matthew Crooks casually walking through a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly two hours before he opened fire on former President Trump and attendees at a campaign rally. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, main, and Iron Clad USA, inset.)
The short clip, released by the clothing company Iron Clad USA, shows Crooks at 4:26 p.m. dressed in shorts and a “Demolitia” T-shirt walking past a line of vendors selling Trump merchandise ahead of the July 13 rally, not carrying anything. He was wearing the same T-shirt when he opened fire on Trump.
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Text messages sent by local law enforcement responsible for monitoring former President Trump’s Pennsylvania flagged Crooks to colleagues as suspicious at least 90 minutes before he opened fire.
The messages, obtained by Fox News Digital via Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who obtained them from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, showed that officers flagged Crooks after he was spotted using a range finder – but did not approach him.
Fox News’ Bonny Chu and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
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Boston, MA
Boston’s Caribbean Carnival returns a year after mass shooting: ‘I always feel safe’
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Boston’s Caribbean community, donning bright, exquisite costumes of crowns, feathers, masks, and rhinestones danced and sang along the streets of Roxbury and Dorchester as a strong police presence kept watch over the celebration.
“I always feel safe,” Montserrat native Jadine Greenaway told the Herald Saturday afternoon as she prepared for the city’s annual Caribbean parade. “The Boston police officers do a wonderful job, they are out here, they’re smiling like they’re confident. The Boston EMS are out here. Everyone is here to make sure we have a wonderful day.”
“Boston is my second home,” Greenaway said. “Why wouldn’t I feel safe here?”
Last year’s Caribbean Carnival was marred by a mass shooting that left eight people injured, leading to concerns and calls for an increased police presence to ensure the safety of all participants, spectators, and the community at large.
Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox responded to those concerns, changing the route for the morning J’ouvert parade, where last year’s shooting took place, and pledging aggressive enforcement and support from state police.
The J’ouvert parade, which started at 6 a.m. and took place exclusively on Circuit Drive in Franklin Park, went off without a hitch, said Shirley Shillingford, who has served as president of Boston Caribbean Carnival for 34 years.
“So far, it has started out good, and we are hoping it continues,” Shillingford, a Jamaican native, told the Herald. “All of the police have been wonderful. We could have never asked better of them.”
Boston Police made at least 15 arrests and recovered about nine firearms during the day’s festivities, Sgt. Det. John Boyle told the Herald Saturday evening.
Addressing the issues that have occurred at the Caribbean Carnival celebrations in past years, Cox said Friday there would be “zero-tolerance for any kind of violence whatsoever.”
The Carnival celebration is considered to be “family-friendly,” he said, meaning that no weapons, including permitted guns, would be allowed. Cox also urged residents to call police to report any neighbors holding late- or overnight parties, which the commissioner said have led to problems in past years.
Greenaway, 46, has come to the Carnival ever since she was a 16-year-old, having immigrated from Montserrat at age 8. This year, she helped design costumes for the Boston Socaholics, a band that plays music she described as the “R&B of the West Indies.”
“It’s my ability, and our ability, as Caribbean people,” said Greenaway, wearing rhinestones and a purple-and-gold costume, “to showcase our artistry, to showcase our culture, our music, and really show how much spirit we have, how free we are, how we embrace life as it is, and we take time to truly enjoy life.”
Last Sunday evening, five people were shot inside Franklin Park, an incident that Cox described as a “heinous act” that marred the end of the Dominican festival. All of the injuries appear to be non-life-threatening, police said.
Tito Jackson, a former city councilor for Roxbury and Dorchester named the grand marshal for this year’s Caribbean Carnival, pointed out how BPD has told him the city’s “had the safest year so far.”
“We will not allow one person or one incident to cast a shadow on the wonderful people, on the wonderful community,” Jackson told the Herald, adding he looked forward to feasting on jerk chicken during the day’s festivities. “We will not allow any news outlet to tell who and what we are. We know we are this city, we make up this city, we work hard every day to live here.”
City Councilor Ed Flynn sent a letter to the police commissioner in the days before the Carnival, urging Cox to request “law enforcement assistance of neighboring cities and towns for this weekend with many events taking place across the city, including the Caribbean parade.”
“Everything is going well,” Flynn told the Herald as he arrived to Martin Luther King Boulevard before the main parade started in the afternoon. “It’s about working together and respecting each other. That’s a critical part of it.”
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-MA 7th District, called the Caribbean Carnival the “perfect capstone” on the heels of having just returned from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“Let us not forget that this is an incredible contributor to our economy, it makes this a destination location,” she told reporters. “It’s a family-friendly event, a tradition that people who’ve grown up in the city their entire lives look forward to.”
Photo by Paul Connors/Boston Herald
Anaya Neblett, 14, of Boston, dances in foam shot from a float during the Caribbean Festival Parade Saturday. (Photo by Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald)
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Photo by Paul Connors/Boston Herald
Revelers from Socaholics dance troupe parade along Warren Avenue during the Caribbean Festival Parade Saturday. (Photo by Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald)
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Photo by Paul Connors/Boston Herald
A Boston Police officer scans the crowd during the Caribbean Festival Parade Saturday. (Photo by Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald)
Pittsburg, PA
Crews begin work in Pittsburgh’s Chartiers neighborhood to calm traffic
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The City of Pittsburgh is beginning work in the Chartiers neighborhood to calm traffic.
The plan involves multiple measures spanning multiple streets.
The work to slow drivers down is already beginning on Chartiers Avenue. There are now speed tables on parts of the road, which were installed this week.
Crews are expected to come in next week to Chartiers Avenue and put up roadway markings on the speed tables and signage.
Jim Cermak is keeping the shirt-pressing alive at Quality Dry Cleaners nearby.
“I’m the second owner. I bought it off the original owner,” he said.
He’s owned the 64-year-old shop since 1997. Cermak’s seen a lot, and some of it is “pressing” him.
“[I’ve seen] people running through red lights, speeding, blowing horns,” he said.
And if you think his gripes are just limited to the street out his window, you’d be wrong.
“It makes me mad when people drive through my driveway,” he said. “I don’t want anyone to get hit.”
These concerns on Chartiers Avenue are prompting the City of Pittsburgh to do some traffic calming. A study found 89% of drivers on Chartiers go over the 25-mile-an-hour speed limit.
“If you stand here for five minutes, you’ll see that,” Cermak said.
The City says Main Street will have some painted bump-outs as well as what it calls a pedestrian refuge on Suter Street while it adds to the one on Middletown Road.
“I think it’s a positive thing,” neighbor Krystal Pate said. “There are a lot of children and residents in the area, so it’s best that people slow down.”
It’s all expected to improve pedestrian safety, which is important with a school nearby.
Cermak hopes it brings more to the area surrounding the business he’s owned for nearly 30 years.
“We own good thoroughfare from Kennedy down to Pittsburgh in the morning and the evenings,” Cermak said. “There’s plenty of room for growth here.”
Connecticut
Childish Gambino concert at Mohegan Sun canceled Saturday night
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The Childish Gambino show scheduled for Mohegan Sun Saturday night has been canceled, according to a Facebook post by the casino.
Mohegan Sun posted on Facebook at 5:40 p.m. that the show was canceled due to “technical difficulties.”
The casino shared a message from Childish Gambino, better known as actor, director, and musician Donald Glover:
“while creating THE NEW WORLD TOUR, the idea was to give fans a new experience. we use a lot of new technologies, and when doing so, technical difficulties can arise. delivering a quality show that all of us @ GILGA can be proud of has remained paramount to us. a show i would be proud to bring to all the childish gambino fans across the world. this has created some challenges in some settings. due to production issues, tonight’s childish gambino concert @ Mohegan Sun must be cancelled. refunds will be issued at point of purchase.
personally, im really upset by this. i just met some fans in the lobby and a father who drove out w/ his daughters bday and was trying to get a shoutout (happy birthday btw). the team is coming up w/ a way to make it up to fans, so we’ll be in contact w/ everyone who bought a Mohegan Sun ticket. i know tickets, hotels, driving, all that isnt cheap. so we’ll come up with something. again, my deepest apologies.”
There has been no word on if or when the show will be rescheduled.
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