The gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday had positioned himself on the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage.
The open-air campaign event was being held at the Butler Farm Show grounds, whose large, sprawling fields gave the sniper a virtually unobstructed line of sight to the former president from his perch.
The counter-sniper team, which sources told The Post killed the shooter, returned fire from the roof of another building close to where Trump was located — behind the audience stands.
The building where the sniper’s body was later discovered is part of AGR International, Inc., a supplier of automation equipment for the glass and plastic packaging industry whose land directly abuts the farm show grounds, separated only by a chain-link fence.
The shots originated from atop the building, part of the AGR International Inc. complex, which is located behind and to the left of the stands full of rallygoers, who were looking toward the stage as Trump spoke.
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The building, identified on Google Street View as building 6 in the complex, sits further away from nearby Whitestown Road and Evans City Road than any of its neighboring structures.
Save for a few trees on AGR International’s property, the building’s rooftop provides a clear vantage to the farm show grounds, with nothing but grass separating the gunman’s rifle from the former president’s head.
An AR-style semi-automatic assault rifle was recovered from the scene, law enforcement sources told The Associated Press.
