maurice dubois takes a closer look at the timeline. >> reporter: despite 90 degree heat, thousands descended on the butler farm show, about 100 acres used for agricultural exhibitions, and the place where donald trump has appeared before. butler county voted overwhelmingly for trump in 2020, so this was expected to be as friendly a crowd as you'd find in the country. the former president and presumptive republican nominee took the stage at 6:03 p.m. >> hello, butler. hello to pennsylvania. >> reporter: at about the same time, a man was spotted on a roof of a building about 160 yards away. he was carrying an ar-style semiautomatic rifle. spectators alerted police. >> we noticed the guy crawling army -- you know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us. so, we're standing there, you know, we're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. >> and he had a gun? >> he had a rifle. we could clearly see him with a rifle, absolutely. we're pointing at him. the police are down there running around on the ground. we're like, hey, man, there's a guy on the roof with a rif