evidence: Did the would-be assassin who fired at former President Donald Trump use the roof of a building owned by investment firm BlackRock? No, that's not true: According to Pennsylvania property records, that building is owned by a different company, American Glass Research. No credible news organization reported otherwise, and BlackRock denied the claim in an email to Lead Stories. [...] Whoa, you're telling me that the same company that owns the building that the person who was just laying down and took some shots off at someone to attempt to take their life very recently... Not only did that dude work for that company in the past, but that building he was on was owned by them. [...] Contrary to a statement in the viral post on TikTok that is the focus of this fact check, the 20-year-old shooter named Thomas Matthew Crooks did not work for BlackRock. He briefly appeared (archived here) in a 2022 BlackRock ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School. Crooks was unpaid and still in high school. Following the attack on Trump, the company pulled the video from circulation and issued a statement condemning "political violence of any kind."