Bomb-clearing assets deployed at shooting site in abundance of caution, FBI says
Bomb-clearing assets were deployed at the scene of the shooting out of an “abundance of caution,” said the FBI in a Saturday evening news conference following the shooting at a rally for former President Donald Trump.
“It’s primarily standard procedure of any suspicious packages, In this case there was identification of suspicious package around where the shooter was and so we deployed, in an abundance of caution, bomb assets to make sure those were cleared for investigators to move safely in the area,” said Kevin Rojek, FBI special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh office.
He did not going into specifics of what those packages were, but said any packages had to be treated as if it were an explosive device.
Rojek said the crime scene is still active.
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