New images of the attack on Donald Trump show what could be the bullet responsible for the damage to his ear which caused bleeding.
The attack that occurred on the afternoon of this Saturday, July 13 in Pennsylvania was an assassination attemptthe FBI said. Initial reports suggest that it was a 20-year-old man named Thomas Crooks who fired the shots from a roof 150 meters from where former President Trump was standing.
It has not yet been determined whether the injury to Trump’s right ear was caused by the direct impact of the bullet or the broken glass from the teleprompter; however, some of the thousands of photographs taken at the time of the attack revealed what would be the bullet passing a few meters from the former president from the United States.
The newspaper The New York Times recently revealed a series of photographs that They are considered “one in a million”because photographer Doug Mills managed to capture what would be a projectile.
The image was verified by Michael Harrigan, a former FBI agent, who said that while the angle of the bullet is “a little low” to pass through his ear, it is possible that it is one of the projectiles fired by the 20-year-old man.
How did they manage to capture the bullet that passed just inches from Trump?
He New York Times said Doug Mills used a Sony digital camera, capable of capturing images at up to 30 frames per second.
In the case of the photos he took of Trump at the time of the attack, he used a shutter speed of 1/8000 of a second, considered “extremely fast” by industry standards.
Now, it’s not just the capture speed of Doug Mills and his camera, but the speed at which the shot goes also plays a role.
The attacker reportedly used an AR-15 rifle with 5.56-millimeter bullets, which typically travel at 975 meters per second.
“And with a shutter speed of 1/8000 of a second, This would allow the bullet to travel approximately four-tenths of a foot. “while the shutter is open,” the former FBI agent said.
He pointed out that most of the cameras used to capture bullets are special and have an “extremely high” shutter speed, “so capturing a bullet (that was going towards Trump) in a lateral trajectory like The one seen in that photo would be a one in a million possibility. and almost impossible to capture even if one knew the bullet was coming.”
With information from The New York Times.
