A Butler County official who was a witness to the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania provided more details on Thursday about a local police officer’s actions that he believed stopped the would-be assassin.
Edward Lenz, a commander with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, said that his police unit wasn’t asked by the Secret Service officials in Butler to secure the AGR building that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, ultimately used to fire on a rally where Trump was speaking on July 13. They were also not asked to secure the perimeter of the rally site.
