The FBI still isn't sure how the killer got the rifle on the roof" title="The FBI still isn't sure how the killer got the rifle on the roof" />
On July 30, 2024, more than two weeks after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said the agency still does not know how the alleged assassin obtained a rifle on the roof from which he fired.
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) asked Abbate if the agency knew how the 20-year-old would-be killer was able to get the rifle on the roof.
abbot answered“We still don't have definitive evidence of how he got the rifle up there. Based on everything that's been gathered so far (photos, videos, eyewitness accounts), we believe he probably had it in his backpack.
Senator Butler went on to ask, “Did it break in the backpack?”
Abbate said: “We're still evaluating it. Our lab has taken, looked at the rifle itself and measured it with the backpack itself, and if it was placed in the backpack, it would extend outside, it would have been visible “.
He went on to say that no witness has mentioned seeing the rifle sticking out of the backpack.
Abbate observed: “It's possible that he broke the rifle, although we have no conclusive evidence of that, and took it out of the bag on the roof at those moments before and reassembled it there, that's one of the theories that “I'm looking at and working on right now.”
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