Below tweet is the view from that window behind Crook's position (red square). The red circle is the place where Crooks body was found by the news channel helicopter after the event.
I think what he meant was that in order to shoot 5 shots at such a rapid pace you need to be an exceptionally good shooter. Crooks apparently had some training in shooting but was he able to shoot as fast as e.g. Miculek? Maybe this is a moot point, I don't have enough expertice to determine.
I see the point now. (Duh!) The 5 alleged Crooks shots WERE fired off in less than a second. I was thinking it was longer than that. According to one of the working hypotheses so far, though, those were the shots fired by Crooks... Maybe he was just that fast, or had a rapid-fire trigger? (Here's a random guy shooting 5/second, and another guy doing 6.)
Here's a still from the above video. Note how the tree does indeed obscure Crooks' position from the first pair of CSU snipers positioned behind Trump.A guy supposedly filming at the area of the roof where Crooks shot:
Fascinating, if true, that Rep. Pat Fallon replicated the shooting with his AR-15, firing 8 rounds from ~130 yards, and 7 out of 8 of his bullets hit the target's head.
Another reason he shot so fast was the urgency of his situation: he just pointed his rifle at a security/policeman and it was a very limited time for him to act if he was to succeed - having been discovered. So he was in a race against time.So, not only by turning his head at the right time did Trump avert his death, maybe the immaturity of the shooter sent him into a emotional state and insecurity that made him have a hissy-fit while aiming his rifle.
Maybe there's an entrance to the building on that far side where someone just had to pop downstairs let him in?
Agreed. Judging by the number of UFO's on the film it's looking more probable it was STS forces.And that's assuming Crooks is a better marksman than him, and that only he fired all 8 rounds. For Crooks AND a pro to miss Trump so badly suggests the level of 'divine intervention' was 'dialed up' high!
A crazy idea, yes.I'm just going to throw a wild idea out here for the sake of elimination. Is it possible that there were three shooters, each taking one cold bore shot at Trump from a similar spot?