Republican Senator Chuck Grassley published on Wednesday a video recorded by a camera of a security officer in which the lifeless body of Thomas Crooks, the shooter who shot Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.

The senator said on network X that his intention is that the images serve to provide “transparency” and be held accountable for the security flaws that led the 20-year-old to parapetet on a roof of a building near the stage of the Trump rally without being detected and firing several shots, which killed an assistant and injured two others, in addition to the Republican candidate.

The video was recorded by an agent’s body camera on the roof where Crooks was and in it you can see a secret service agent discussing the details with several police officers of what had just happened to inform Washington.

Before being killed by the security forces, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), fired eight bullets, whose shells were found on the roof on which he was mounted.

This was reported on Wednesday by the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, in an appearance in a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in which he offered some details about the attempted assassination of the former president that occurred on Saturday, July 13 at a rally in Butler (Pennsylvania).

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Faced with questions from several legislators, Wray assured that the FBI will continue to work “tirelessly to get to the bottom of what happened.”

“We are putting all the resources of the FBI at the service of criminal and national security. Now there is a lot of work going on and there is still a lot of work to be done and our understanding – of what happened and why – will continue to evolve, but we are not going to leave stone without moving,” he said.

“The assassination attempt of the former president was an attack on our democracy and our democratic process and we will not tolerate political violence of any kind, especially a despicable account of this magnitude,” Wray said.

Wray revealed that the shooter was flying the drone around the area, not on stage, but about 200 meters away, about two hours before the start of the rally and that helped him determine the best position to aim the weapon outside the security perimeter.

And about the explosive devices, Wray specified that a total of three explosive devices were recovered, two in Crooks’ vehicle and one from his residence. All of them had receivers that could have allowed them to be detonated remotely.

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Grassley said today that the video and documents he has revealed after an official request provide more answers than the Secret Service has given to the American public to date.

Legislators of both parties were very disappointed with the evasion of the former director of the Secret Service, in charge of the security of presidents, former presidents and presidential candidates, Kimberly Cheatle, at a hearing on Monday.

Cheatle resigned yesterday due to the security flaws that led to the attack on Trump, who recovered from a bullet that slightly pierced her right ear.