Former President Donald Trump sustained an injury during the shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. A gunman opened fire, resulting in the deaths of at least one attendee and the gunman himself, with two others critically wounded, according to the Secret Service.
Law enforcement sources disclosed that the assailant was positioned on a building rooftop adjacent to the rally venue. Authorities are treating the incident as an attempted assassination.
The shooter has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania according to The New York Post. Crooks fired from a rooftop over 130 yards away at the Butler Farm Show grounds, with one bullet grazing former President Trump’s ear.
BREAKING: Thomas Matthew Crooks ID'd as the suspect who shot at Donald Trump at his PA rally.
Crooks was 20-years-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania which was about 40 miles south of the Butler rally.
An AR-15 was reportedly recovered at the scene.
Crooks was apparently shot… pic.twitter.com/D5GP6hVYWC
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Crooks was fatally shot by Secret Service snipers and authorities later recovered an AR-style rifle at the scene. Crooks hailed from Bethel Park, located 40 miles south of the rally in Butler. The reasons for Crooks firing at the former president nominee are still unknown. Two Secret Service snipers can be seen scanning the area where the shots ultimately came from before Crooks opened fire. They immediately responded with shots of their own.
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