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(NewsNation) — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle person been asked to talk to lawmakers astatine a Congressional proceeding adjacent Tuesday astir the attempted assassination of erstwhile President Donald Trump.
Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., the president of the House Committee connected Homeland Security, said he's calling for the proceeding due to the fact that "the American radical privation answers" astir the circumstances surrounding the Saturday shooting astatine a Trump rally.
"Secretary Mayorkas and Director Cheatle are liable for the section and the bureau charged with securing our homeland and protecting our nation’s main executives and candidates, portion Director Wray leads the bureau with the captious work of investigating this attempted assassination,” Green said successful a statement. "It is imperative that we spouse to recognize what went wrong, and however Congress tin enactment with the departments and agencies to guarantee this ne'er happens again."
The FBI said Sunday that a 20-year-old gunman attempted to assassinate the erstwhile president astatine a run rally Saturday successful Butler, Pennsylvania. The gunman, identified arsenic Thomas Matthew Crooks, was up connected a gathering astir 130 yards distant from Trump’s stage, was killed seconds aft Trump was shot.
A U.S. Secret Service source told NewsNation that section authorities were assigned to screen the gathering wherever Crooks changeable his weapon.
According to the USSS source, it’s modular for section constabulary to grip areas extracurricular the perimeter of an lawsuit due to the fact that they cognize them better.
While a section serviceman checked connected the extortion and recovered the shooter, the root said helium did not prosecute due to the fact that helium couldn’t scope his limb and Crooks’ weapon was pointed astatine him.
Two attendees, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74 were wounded, and the former occurrence main for South Buffalo Township, Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed as helium shielded his household from the fire.
