Dramatic new police bodycam video from the Pennsylvania rooftop where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired his AR-15-style rifle at former President Donald J. Trump showed his handcuffed body face-down and a river of blood that ran down the roof and over the edge from a counter-sniper’s kill shot to the head.Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released 25 minutes of new bodycam video to add to the three minutes he released earlier in the week. The video was obtained by Senate investigators from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit SWAT team.The video confirmed the presence of eight shell casings and showed that a remote-control device for triggering bombs found in Crooks’ possession had an extendable antenna.The bodycam video began as the SWAT officer jogged behind the stage where Trump was shot 16 minutes earlier. He ran toward the American Glass Research building north of the fairground that hosted the rally. A medic, another SWAT officer, and the recording SWAT operator had to crawl through a hole in the chain link fence in order to access the AGR property.'If that phone starts ringing or something, call me, in case he’s got someone working with him.'The SWAT officer climbed to the roof of Building 6 via a ladder leaned against the east front of the building. As the officer stepped onto the roof at 6:31 p.m., the camera showed an open, black Swiss Gear backpack near the north edge of the roof. A small, tan canvas pack was seen about halfway up the roof to where Crooks’ body lay.The medic knelt down and checked Crooks’ carotid artery for a pulse. His body was face-down and had been handcuffed by the first officers on scene. The wound to Crooks’ head was fatal, as evidenced by the massive amount of blood that flowed down the roof.Crooks’ rifle was about six feet to his left, likely moved to that spot by responding officers who then handcuffed him.Former FBI special agent and SWAT team member Steve Friend said handcuffing a criminal subject and securing any weapons are by-the-book actions for the first officers on scene. “That is a standard protocol to ensure officer safety," Friend told Blaze News.“Watch out for shell casings,” a voice off camera told the SWAT officer on the bodycam video.A sergeant from the Allegheny County Bomb Squad searched through Crooks’ pockets. Lying next to Crooks were a cell phone, a rangefinder, and the grey transceiver. One of the officers snapped photos with a cell phone to send to other bomb squad officials.“If that phone starts ringing or something, call me, in case he’s got someone working with him,” the Allegheny sergeant said. “I’d like to secure it, but he’s got 10 percent battery left.” He said the phone would be placed in a Faraday bag that would prevent signals from triggering explosives if Crooks’ had rigged any devices nearby.In testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on July 24, FBI Director Christopher Wray said analysts don’t believe the remote controller could have triggered the two explosive devices found in Crooks’ vehicle.'It’s hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered.'A Secret Service agent who came onto the roof about 7 p.m. asked about shell casings, some of which were visible on the roof. “At least 8,” the Beaver SWAT officer said.Police Drones Were OfferedIn other developments in the attempted assassination, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said, according to a whistleblower, the U.S. Secret Service “repeatedly” refused offers from a local law enforcement agency to have drone technology available to secure the site for the Trump rally.“This means that the technology was both available to the USSS and able to be deployed to secure the sight,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Secret Service said no.”Hawley said it was only after the shooting that the Secret Service changed its mind “and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack.”“It’s hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally with his own drone mere hours before [the] event,”Hawley wrote.Wray testified that Crooks flew his own small drone in the area of the rally, about 200 yards from the stage, for about 11 minutes beginning at 3:50 p.m. Trump was shot just after 6:11 p.m.A bipartisan group of U.S. senators sent letters to three federal agencies and five state and local law enforcement agencies to obtain records related to the rally and the attempted assassination.“The senators are seeking information on security preparations, intelligence gathering on potential violence prior to the attack, and detailed explanations of the agencies’ security response,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in a statement.The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee earlier announced its own bipartisan investigation, joining investigations in the House and probes by the DHS Office of Inspector General and the FBI.During nearly five hours of testimony in the House on July 24, Wray seemed to question whether Trump was actually struck with a bullet or whether it was a piece of shrapnel. Wray did not explain what led him to make the assertion.Wray’s remarks drew fire from Trump’s former presidential physician, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who has examined Trump since the shooting.“Having served as an emergency medicine physician for over 20 years in the United States Navy, including as a combat physician on the battlefield in Iraq, I have treated many gunshot wounds in my career,” Jackson wrote in a July 26 letter to “Concerned Citizens of the United States.”“There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet,” Jackson wrote. “Congress should correct the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else.”On Friday afternoon, the FBI issued a statement confirming that Trump was struck by a bullet. "What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle," the agency said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An Alabama pastor delivered a powerful sermon detailing how he wrestled a gun away from his grandson. The struggle over the gun happened just moments after the tragic murders of a woman and four children. Brandon Allan Kendrick II was arrested last week and charged with four counts of capital murder of a child under the age of 14 and one count of capital murder in the slayings of two or more people in one act, according to AL.com.'Don’t you think that if you don’t have Jesus, you’re going to walk out of here, and everything’s going to be cool because you ain’t no match for the devil.'Kendrick, 32, is accused of shooting to death Kelse Kendrick — his 24-year-old wife of six years. Kendrick also is accused of murdering the couple's two children: 6-year-old Kaleb Kendrick and 2-year-old Kynli Kendrick. Also murdered in the bloodbath were the couple’s niece and nephew: Haley Daniels, 6, and Colton Daniels, who would have turned 9 on Tuesday.Kendrick's grandfather, Rev. Allan Kendrick, described the events leading up to and after the horrific quintuple homicide during his sermon Sunday at the Oasis of Praise church in McCalla. Kendrick said that 10 minutes before the unimaginable shootings, his grandson was "laughing, talking" in a bedroom with him and his wife Gay."We talked about the first time we ever took him to a restaurant for his 13th birthday. He'd never been in a restaurant," Pastor Kendrick recalled. "All he'd ever known for 12 years was abuse — physical, sexual, mental, drug," Kendrick said of his grandson. "When I got him at 12 years old, he weighed 58 pounds. He was on nine different psychotic medicines."The pastor said that the system had failed Brandon once he turned 18 years old because his disability and Medicaid were canceled. The family couldn't afford his medication. "Gay and I watched him all these years try so hard," Kendrick said. "We talked to every agency, we talked to everybody, we tried everything. We had him institutionalized in hospitals only to have him discharged with no medication, no follow up, no doctor."Kendrick said Brandon called 911 around 1 a.m. on the day of the murders, but he was "turned down."Kendrick said Kelse Kendrick came home and also was in the bedroom with the family and was in good spirits that day. “[Brandon] got up, 10 minutes later, ‘Pow,’’' Pastor Kendrick told his congregation just days after five members of his family were slain in his home.Kendrick continued, "I told Gay, 'That’s a gunshot.' She said it was."Moments later, Brandon walked into the bedroom with a gun in his hand and Gay was in close proximity to him. "She grabbed the gun. It went off. I don’t know how it kept from hitting her," Kendrick said before crediting the prayers from an hour earlier."Yeah, yeah, I do know. Because our prayer time that night, about an hour before this incident, our prayer team stood here and joined hands and prayed for [my] and Gay’s safety," he said. "I had reached out to several of the church members; they were helping me, trying to get some kind of help. So, they prayed for us."Kendrick said he wrestled his armed grandson to the floor.“I was able to subdue him. And once that happened, he didn’t know where he was at," he noted.The pastor said, "He didn’t know where he was at. He started asking me and Gay, saying, 'No, where am I at? Where’s Kelse? Poppy, why, why are you angry? What did I do wrong?'"Kendrick remembered, "Ten minutes before that he’s laughing, talking and having a pretty good time. Don’t you think that if you don’t have Jesus, you’re going to walk out of here and everything’s going to be cool because you ain’t no match for the devil."He told his congregation, "Do you think you’re strong enough to resist the devil if he were to possess you? You better get your heart right with God, because you may be the next one on national news."Kendrick also addressed concerns that he shouldn't deliver a sermon just days after his family's ghastly tragedy. "I've had a few people call [and say], 'Pastor, you can’t preach Sunday. You can’t get up and preach Sunday with what you’ve been through and what’s going on with you. It’s going to be too hard,'" he recounted to his congregation. He added, "What I’m doing right now, I’ll get criticized for. I'm supposed to be mourning. I’m supposed to be grieving. I’m supposed to be incapable of doing anything. I should be at home with my blinds pulled."But Kendrick declared, "No, when heard this, 'I will look into the hills from which cometh my help.' My help cometh from the Lord."A GoFundMe has been launched to help pay for the estimated $50,000 in funeral costs for the five slain family members. At the time of publication, the crowdsourcing campaign had raised over $31,000. You can watch Kendrick tell his tragic story to his congregation here. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Kamala Harris may be playing up her Gen Z voter base appeal with sparkly TikTok videos and a recent endorsement as a “brat” from Charli XCX, but Sara Gonzales doesn’t believe her strategy is enough to win the election. “Number one, she condemned pro-Palestinian rioters, burning the flags and defacing these statues, rioting in Union Park and on Capitol Hill,” Gonzales says. “She probably has a lot of Hamas lovers in her base — is this going to alienate them?” In a statement from the vice president, Harris called the rioters “unpatriotic,” said their actions were “despicable,” and that their rhetoric was “dangerous” and “hate-fueled.” “I don’t think that’s going to fly with them,” Gonzales says, noting that the Democrats also already know Harris is a “failed border czar.” “I know the press is trying to wipe away the fact that Joe ever crowned her as border czar,” Gonzales comments, adding, “Today, six Democrats joined every Republican House member to condemn Kamala Harris’ handling of the border crisis.” “Her own people are turning against her because they cannot deny that the Border has been just decimated under her and Biden’s watch,” she says. While Harris’ step-daughter is a Gen Z transgender advocate who refuses to shave her armpits, Gonzales doesn’t believe her presence will do much. Rather, she says she could be the next “Hunter Biden.” “I mean, Kamala is just such a terrible candidate,” Gonzales continues. “I love that all of these things that are happening right now that she is being forced to attend to. She’s being forced to come out and condemn her people, all of these pro-Hamas terrorists — what I’m calling them.” “I just love it. It just couldn’t be happening to a more deserving person. So, yes, we know that she’s going to fall on her face, but it’s just nice to see all of these things come to fruition now,” she adds. Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.