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2024-07-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Sniper killed would-be Trump assassin with 'one-in-a-million shot': source
[FoxNews] The shot that killed the man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday was a "one-in-a-million shot," according to a source familiar with the investigation into the shooting.

Fox News learned from the source the kill shot was a single shot taken by a Secret Service counter sniper whose view was obscured.

A local tactical team also took a shot at the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but missed.

The Secret Service sniper who killed Crooks could only see Crooks’ gun scope and the top of his eye and forehead because the lip of the roof was blocking the sniper’s view.
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Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-20 00:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1822 views ]  Top

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When will the Media stop using the Shooter's 2021 High School picture using the 2024 pictures with long stringy head and chin hair.


Plus, is there any truth to the rumor that IT was Transgendering and it's being hid?
Posted by NN2N1 2024-07-20 06:14||   2024-07-20 06:14|| Front Page Top

2 ...could only see Crooks’ gun scope and the top of his eye and forehead...

Sounds like Carlos Hathcock's famous shot
Posted by Mercutio 2024-07-20 08:21||   2024-07-20 08:21|| Front Page Top

3 Trump Second-Shooter Theory Emerges
Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-20 09:52||   2024-07-20 09:52|| Front Page Top

4 Rumors of a Deep State setup are beginning to surface. Until someone produces a photo of Ray Epps in the crowd at Butler, I'm believing non of it.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-20 10:43||   2024-07-20 10:43|| Front Page Top

5 " The shooter used three encrypted platforms in Germany, New Zealand and Belgium." From Axios- this is the most unusual aspect revealed so far. He was an online gamer so who he encounter in combat gaming might be linked to those. Historically, such sites have been conversational recruitment tools for certain groups.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-07-20 13:08||   2024-07-20 13:08|| Front Page Top

6 Typical Media BS. It was an medium to difficult shot, which any competent sniper could make 90% of the time.

If he missed he could take more shots.

Posted by Javiter+Dark+Lord+of+the+Faith7963 2024-07-20 17:15||   2024-07-20 17:15|| Front Page Top

7 Head shot to eye cancels ability to focus aim but trigger pulls still possible.
Posted by Dale 2024-07-20 18:52||   2024-07-20 18:52|| Front Page Top

8 Head shot to eye cancels ability to focus aim but trigger pulls still possible.
Posted by Dale 2024-07-20 18:52||   2024-07-20 18:52|| Front Page Top

9 And your suggestion is to shoot the gun out his hand like the Lone
Ranger?
Posted by KBK 2024-07-20 19:42||   2024-07-20 19:42|| Front Page Top

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