After the 1st shot (#9) against him, Crooks turns towards the crowd on the west facing side of AGR6. He’s still alive and able to move.
Just before the (deadly) final Counter Sniper shot #10 rings out, Crooks repositions himself to take aim on Trump/the rall crowd. The Counter Sniper probably saw Crooks when he was errecting himself a little bit an looked towards the rally crowd. He got set up and took the shot when Crooks repositioned himself to open fire again. Luckily this shot hit.
Guy in the blue shirt holds hand up just after he saw Crooks got shot.
https://x.com/TeresaSkaggs5/status/1822277316824682698
In contrast to my observations Congressman Higgins just released a preliminary investigative report. He writes that shot #10 was from a USSS southern counter-sniper team, but also isn’t 100% sure yet. The question is what he means exactly with southern counter-sniper team, what was their position (since he doesn’t mention the red barn behind the stage specifically or the team’s name as in the after action report).
• The 9th shot fired on J13 was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up. The SWAT operator who took this shot was a total badass; when he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a mostly obscured by foliage moving target on the AGR rooftop, he immediately left his assigned post and ran towards the threat, running to a clear shot position directly into the line of fire while Crooks was firing 8 rounds. On his own, this ESU SWAT operator took a very hard shot, one shot. He stopped Crooks and importantly, I believe the shot damaged the buffer tube on Crooks’AR. I won’t be certain of this until I can examine Crooks’ rifle, but I’m 99% sure, based upon reliable eye-witness ESU tactical officers who observed Crooks’ rifle before the FBI harvested it as evidence. This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle wouldn’t fire after his 8th shot.
• Crooks “went down” from his firing position when shot 9 was fired, and the SWAT officer was certain of his hit. According to the ESU SWAT operator, Crooks recovered after just a few seconds, and “popped back up”.
• The 10th (and, I believe, final) shot was fired from the southern counter-sniper team. I will not be 100% certain of this until further investigation. However, I am quite sure that the USSS southern counter-sniper team fired the killing shot, which, according to my investigation, entered somewhere around the left mouth area and exited the right ear area. Instant over. This entry-exit aligns with USSS southern counter-sniper team position.
Other strange findings in the report:
“The FBI released the crime scene after just 3 days, much to everyone’s surprise”
“The FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which is unheard of. Cops don’t do that, ever”
“the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13. On J23, Crooks was gone”
“The coroner’s report and autopsy report are both late”
The report also doesn’t say anything at all about results of the technical analysis of weapons used, projectiles, casings etc.
