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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Dwayne Oxford

‘He’s got a gun’: The 60 minutes leading up to Trump assassination attempt

Republican presidential candidate and former president, Donald Trump, is helped off stage after an assassination attempt at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday, July 13, 2024 (File: Gene J Puskar/AP)

Details are beginning to emerge about how the 20-year-old would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get close enough to Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday to shoot the former United States president in the ear.

Evading Secret Service agents and local law enforcement officers, Crooks reached a rooftop about 140 metres (450ft) from where Trump was speaking on a stage and fired, grazing the Republican candidate running in the presidential election in November.

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