Jess would kill me
Doesn't matter in the bigger scheme of things
Edit: hit by glass would make a lot of sense, but I’d wait for confirmation from serious news sources to believe that narrative. There should have been no direct lines of sight to Trump, assuming SS did their job setting up the area. This would mean the shooter would not have been able to aim at the former president, and may have chosen to fire into the crowd, instead (hell, that may have been the plan in the first place, not talking conspiracy, but rather psychology). This is all 100% speculation; I’m just thinking out loud, if you will.
So from what I've been reading it seems that the gunman was perched on an adjacent rooftop outside the perimeter. He used an "AR-style" rifle and CNN has the following:
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A local police officer saw the gunman just before he fired on a Donald Trump rally Saturday but was unable to engage him, Butler County Sheriff Michael T. Slupe said in an interview Sunday with The Washington Post.
Slupe told The Post that the officer was examining the area after there were requests from law enforcement to identify a suspicious person.
“So police responded to try to find the guy, searched the area, but couldn’t find him, so said, ‘Well, let’s try the roof,’” Slupe said.
Slupe said the officer pulled himself up enough to look on the roof and see the gunman, who also saw the officer and pointed his gun at the officer.
“He lets go because he doesn’t want to get killed,” Slupe said. The gunman then started firing.
CNN reported earlier that the shooter was spotted outside the event by local law enforcement, who thought he might’ve been acting suspiciously near the walk-through metal detectors, according to a senior law enforcement official. They put out a call over the radio to keep an eye on him, and that information was passed on to Secret Service, the source said.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-biden-trump-07-13-24/index.html
Better layout of the area.