Though the veritable coronation of Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party presidential nominee has taken up much of the news cycle in recent days, millions of Americans remain eager to get to the bottom of what occurred on July 13 at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

To that end, much attention is now being paid to a recently released video of what appears to show Trump shooter Thomas Crooks scurrying across a rooftop near the stage on which the former President was hit in the ear with a bullet just moments before unleashing his attack, as the Daily Mail reports.

Victim captures shocking footage

Incredibly, the new angle on the day's shocking events came via video taken by James Copenhaver, one of the victims hit by Crooks' rampage.

In the footage, a figure can be seen running along a rooftop before shots rang out at the packed rally event, leaving Trump with a gunshot wound, two others with serious injuries, and one spectator, Corey Comperatore, dead.

The video shot by Copenhaver shows the figure, presumed to be Crooks, progressing along the roof before Trump turns his head, apparently giving him a direct line of sight to the would-be killer, just before the assailant moves further away.

A mere three minutes after the video ended, Crooks began shooting, hitting his victims and causing chaos among the crowd.

Copenhaver suffered what were referred to by his attorney as “life altering injuries” to the arm and abdomen, is still recovering at a rehabilitation facility, but is expected to recover.

Security failures under the microscope

Though there has been substantial fallout from the obvious security collapse at the rally, including the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, countless questions remain about how Crooks obtained access to the vantage point from which he unleashed his hail of bullets.

New revelations about the hours leading up to the incident have brought forth no shortage of troubling details, with the New York Times reporting earlier this week that some local law enforcement officers were aware of Crooks' suspicious presence on the scene upwards of 90 minutes before he began shooting.

Text messages between local police counter snipers revealed that one such individual who was poised to go off duty informed colleagues that they had spotted a man nearby who was later reported by another team member to have pointed a rangefinder toward the crowd.

Though the countersniper team members at issue suggested that the Secret Service be notified, communication breakdowns along the way seemed to have prevented his subsequent interception before he was able to initiate his attack.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) heaped further condemnation on the Secret Service this week, revealing that its agents did not attend a planned security briefing with local law enforcement on the morning of the rally, as Just the News noted.

Bipartisan House task forced announced

With damning revelations about what went wrong on July 13 continuing to mount, on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) made public the names of the lawmakers set to serve on a task force probing the attempt on Trump's life, a panel poised to include seven Republicans and six Democrats, as The Hill reported.

While Johnson and Jeffries expressed that they have the “utmost confidence” in the group's ability to “find the facts, ensure accountability and help make certain such failures never happen again,” Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) has argued that a “parallel independent investigation” is necessary to ensure impartiality and subject matter expertise, and that is something that he has already initiated and has vowed to see through to completion.