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ByERIC TUCKER 
Saturday, July 20, 2024 10:06PM
A timeline reveals the suspected shooter's movements, including that authorities were alert of him connected rooftop 20 minutes earlier shots fired.
WASHINGTON -- The gunman successful the attempted assassination of erstwhile President Donald Trump is believed to person flown a drone astir the Pennsylvania rally tract up of clip successful an evident effort to scope retired the tract earlier the event, a instrumentality enforcement authoritative said Saturday.
The drone has been recovered by the FBI, which is starring the probe into past Saturday's shooting astatine the rally by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Crooks fired aggregate rounds from the extortion of a gathering adjacent to the Butler Farm Show grounds, wherever Trump was speaking, earlier being fatally changeable by a Secret Service antagonistic sniper. The beingness of the instrumentality and its usage astatine immoderate constituent earlier the shooting could assistance explicate wherefore Crooks knew to occurrence from the point.
The authoritative who described the drone was not authorized to sermon the substance publically and spoke to The Associated Press connected the information of anonymity. Details of the drone were archetypal reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Trump said this week that 1 slug clipped his close ear. A memo released Saturday by the Trump run and authored by Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served arsenic the GOP nominee's White House physician, said that Trump sustained a gunshot coiled to the close receptor from a high-powered firearm that came "less than a 4th of an inch from entering his head, and struck the apical of his close ear."
One of the bullets aimed toward Trump killed 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore, a spectator who was successful the bleachers. Two others were earnestly wounded.
The FBI is continuing to analyse what whitethorn person motivated Crooks to transportation retired the attack. So far, officials person not recovered immoderate ideological bent that could assistance explicate his actions.
Investigators who searched his telephone recovered photos of Trump, President Joe Biden and different elder authorities officials, and besides recovered that helium had looked up the dates for the Democratic National Conventional arsenic good arsenic Trump's appearances. He besides searched for accusation astir large depressive order.
More details astir the probe are expected to beryllium made nationalist successful the coming week erstwhile FBI Director Chris Wray appears earlier the House Judiciary Committee.
Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
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