Closing summary
Former Republican president Donald Trump returned to his home in New Jersey after he was injured in an attempted assassination at a rally in the Butler Park Showgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” Trump wrote on social media after the shooting. He had been taken to a hospital for evaluation and then reportedly discharged at about 10.20pm local time.
The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the “subject involved” in what it termed an attempted assassination. Crooks was a registered Republican, according to state voter records. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.
Secret Service agents fatally shot Crooks, who attacked from an elevated position outside the rally venue at a farm show in Butler, the agency said. One person who attended the rally was killed and two other spectators were critically injured, the Secret Service said.
US President Joe Biden, who spoke to Trump after the shooting, said he was grateful to hear Trump was “safe and doing well”.
An attender at the rally said he saw the alleged shooter on a rooftop about “200 to 250 yards” away from where Trump was speaking to supporters yesterday. The BBC said they spoke with a witness who said they saw someone with a rifle outside the Trump rally, and tried to point him out to police, before he opened fire.
The Oversight Committee in the Republican-led US House of Representatives has summoned the US Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle, to testify at a hearing scheduled for 22 July. “Americans demand answers about the assassination attempt of President Trump,” the panel said in a statement on X.
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Trump rally attendee says he saw alleged shooter 'move from roof to roof' before assassination attempt
An attender at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, saw the alleged shooter on a rooftop about “200 to 250 yards” away from where the former Republican president was speaking to supporters yesterday, KDKA News reports.
Ben Macer said he told officers that he saw a gunman moving “from roof to roof,” shortly before the assassination attempt.
Macer told KDKA-TV’s Jennifer Borraso that he was up along the fence line and “saw the guy move from roof to roof. [I] told an officer [the alleged shooter] was on the roof.”
“When I turned around to go back to where I was, it was when the gunshots started, and then it was just chaos, and we all came running away, and that was that,” he said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of Trump. He was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination.
