The U.S. Secret Service plans to increase the use of surveillance drones following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the agency's acting director said Friday.
Secret Service to increase drone use after attempted assassination of Trump
“We did not have a drone on site” at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a gunman opened fire on the Republican White House candidate, said Ronald Rowe, who took over after the previous director stepped down.
Trump suffered a minor injury to his right ear, two rally attendees were seriously injured and a 50-year-old Pennsylvania firefighter was killed when the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired eight shots from a nearby rooftop.
Crooks, 20, was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper in a building behind the podium where Trump had begun speaking.
