US election: I told police, they didn’t respond – Witness narrates how Trump was shot

A witness has narrated how a man with a rifle was seen on a rooftop minutes before shots were fired at former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.

There was an assassination attempt on Trump during his election campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Greg Smith, who was listening to Trump from outside the event, said the man had crawled on top of a building about 50ft away from the rally.

Smith said on sighting the man, he drew the attention of the police by pointing the guman to them.

The shooter, who has been identified as a 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, according to the New York Post, aimed and shot at Trump, Piercing his ear with a bullet.

The gunman was killed on the spot by the security operatives and Smith told the BBC he saw Secret Service agents shoot the man.

“We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50ft away,” he said.

“He had a rifle, we could clearly see a rifle.

“We’re pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we’re like ‘Hey man, there’s a guy on the roof with a rifle’… and the police did not know what was going on.

“Why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs here?” he asked.

“This is not a big place.

“[It’s a] security failure, 100% security failure.

“They crawled up on the roof, they had their guns pointed at him, made sure he was dead. He was dead, and that was it – it was over,” he added.