Secret Service Did Not Know Trump Shooter Had Gun Until Shots Fired: Official

The Secret Service’s acting director testified to the U.S. Senate on July 30.

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. prepares to testify to the Senate in Washington on July 30, 2024. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

The Secret Service counter-snipers and personnel guarding former President Donald Trump on July 13 were both unaware that a man on the rooftop of a nearby building had a gun, the agency’s top official said on Tuesday.

“Neither the Secret Service counter-sniper teams, nor members of the former president’s security detail, had any knowledge that there was a man on the roof of the AGR building with a firearm,” Ronald Rowe Jr., the Secret Service’s acting director, told senators on Capitol Hill in Washington.