Found Guilty after Failed PlotJust after the verdict was announced, Routh began stabbing at his own neck with a pen. His daughter, Sarah Ellen Routh, was also seen hurling expletives in the courtroom before breaking down in tears and rushing out. A Secret Service agent spotted him perched in a sniper's nest with an SKS rifle aimed through a fence. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper. During the trial, prosecutors called 38 law enforcement witnesses, including the Secret Service agent who foiled his plot.