Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, sustained injuries in a shooting that occurred on Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump grasped his right ear and collapsed to the ground as Secret Service agents instructed him to cease. Subsequently, they rushed to the stage to protect the former president as they heard additional gunshots.
On the rally microphone, agents were heard uttering the phrase “Shooter’s down” approximately 45 seconds following the former president’s shooting.
The gunfire caused the death of a 50-year-old man and the critical injuries of two other spectators.
Investigators are currently looking into the incident as an assassination attempt by a shooter who was on a roof near the rally site.
The FBI is investigating the Pennsylvania campaign rally shooting that wounded the former president, overshadowing his Nov. 5 rematch with President Joe Biden.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old gunman, is a nursing home aide, according to the initial information regarding the investigation.
Crooks, a Republican from Bethel Park, could have cast his first presidential vote on Nov. 5.
According to public records, his father is a registered Republican, his mother is a registered Democrat, and Crooks made a $15 donation to a Democratic Party cause when he was 17 years old.
Biden requested an independent review of the circumstances under which the gunman was able to come perilously close to killing or injuring Trump at the Butler, Pennsylvania, event on Saturday, despite the extensive security measures implemented by the Secret Service.
