Trump shooting investigations focus on motive, security failures
The U.S. Secret Service is facing mounting questions about the security flaws that allowed the shooter to fire from a rooftop near the rally.
www.cbsnews.com
The U.S. Secret Service was notified by the Pennsylvania State Police of a suspicious person with a rangefinder on the ground at 5:51 p.m. on Saturday — about 20 minutes before the gunman opened fire,
Cellphone video also shows rally attendees pointing toward the shooter, later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, and trying to alert authorities to his presence — a full two minutes before he opened fire on the former president.
Red bolding mine.
From this article, it seemed like rally attendees may have tried to alert both the state police and the secret service ?
And imo -- two minutes was long enough for a cop to demand that TC put his hands up and then get a cop on that roof to see what he was doing up there.
Two minutes to prevent carnage.
Omo.