Donald Trump: Eyewitness recalls how Secret Service killed shooter after assassination attempt

An eyewitness has spoken after the Secret Service killed the shooter after US Presidential candidate Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt.

The crowd member who saw the exchange which killed another audience member, spoke to the BBC and said he saw the gunman on a roof and tried to alert the Secret Service and police before ‘they blew his head off’.

“We noticed a guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us,” the man told the BBC.

“We’re pointing at the guy ... you could see him with a rifle. We are pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we are like, ‘Hey man, there’s a guy on the roof with a rifle’.”

“I’m thinking to myself: ‘Why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage?’ I’m pointing at that roof and next thing I know, five shots rang out.

“He was up there for three or four minutes ... we were telling the police, we were pointing at him for the Secret Service.”

As the Secret Service locked in on the person with the rifle the eye-witness then said: “They blew his head off, the Secret Service blew his head off.”

Butler county district attorney Richard A Goldinger confirmed that the shooter at Donald Trump’s rally, as well as an attendee, are dead.

No information about the shooter is available as yet.

Images beamed across the world show Mr Trump grimacing and raising his right hand to his ear, as the shots rang out in the crowd.

Bodyguards are then seen crowding around Mr Trump as he ducked below the podium and armed officers took up positions at the front of the stage.

Mr Trump repeatedly raised his fist to the crowd and shouted as he was escorted to a vehicle by the US Secret Service.