Attendee at Trump rally claims he saw the alleged shooter on a rooftop near the event

I just a gentleman who was along the fence line just I'm just meeting him right now sir um thank you so much you're talking to KD Ka can I have your name and what did you see and hear this is Ben Maser um I was at the same point that probably the witness you were talking to earlier I was up at the fence line um saw the guy move from roof to roof talked told an officer that he was on the roof um the officer come looking I went back to um heard that there was somebody that could see the person so I went back to where they were standing saw the person went back and told the officer again that if he goes back to that particular spot he can see the person figuring that he would go in radio and when I turned around to go back to where I was is when The Gunshot started and then it was just chaos and we all came running away and that was that was that um so let me get this right so you actually saw the man on top of the roof behind us yes and you're saying people reported that to law enforcement saying there is a man on the roof of the building yes there were two two officers that were actively sear you could tell they were searching and looking for somebody and we just tried helping telling where the guy was and they at some point somebody obviously found them or the snipers found him and um that was the end of his decisions did you get a good look at the guy on the roof I did not have a good look at him but um I just seen him going from one building to another there was a little Gap in between and he went and when I went back to talk to see the people that I heard that could see him um seen a quick look at him there and then when to the officer to tell the officer and he just that was all that I all that I got how many gunshots did you hear I have no idea it was at first I didn't know what I heard and then once it became clear what I heard that it was just getting out of there and um I helped helped a lady that had a four-year-old kid helped them get out and that was that was it we were done and everybody went home and you seem you're obviously shaken up right now just talking to me a little bit it's not every day that you're that close to anything like that how far do you think that shooter was from the stage of uh where the former president was speaking probably 200 250 yards was it parallel to where the president was where his where he was I could not see the president so I'm not 100% sure but it was is definitely close to parallel what are your questions right now just in light of this happening uh I don't have questions I'm just you know curious like anybody else and just seeing what's what all is still going on I just live I live close to here so I'm just taking it all in and seeing what's going on okay thank you so much for your time

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Length: 3min 22sec (202 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 14 2024