Air Force veteran at Trump rally says 'something wasn't right' before would-be assassin opened fire

Sarah Taylor said she saw "sharpshooters" to her left while she was watching former President Trump speak at his July 13 rally. (Sarah Taylor)

BUTLER, Pa. – An Air Force veteran who attended former President Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 said she noticed glaring security issues before Thomas Crooks carried out an assassination attempt that left one dead and two others critically wounded.

Sarah Taylor, an 18-year veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, told Fox News Digital that she was initially excited about attending her first Trump rally, but as soon as she and her friend secured their positions some 100 yards from where the president was speaking, they could not help but notice an "eerie" building behind them.

"The fence was there. Right behind us was the building the shooter was on," she recalled. "And we talked about it a lot because it was just really eerie, and my spidey senses were up. I had been in the military for 18 years, and something was not right about that area."

She noticed some local police and state troopers walking around a field outside the American Glass Research (AGR) building that Crooks eventually fired from, but there was no law enforcement presence on the roof.

"We just kept looking back at it thinking, ‘Something’s not right,'" Taylor said. "… I'm used to looking at my surroundings. I was deployed overseas — I knew something wasn't right."