On Sunday, Donald Trump was rushed off stage after shots were fired during a campaign rally that was being held in Butler, Pennsylvania.

As Secret Service agents gathered around, there was blood seen on the right of his ear as the agents led him away. He held up a fist as he got into a vehicle. He was confirmed to be doing fine after the shooting attempt.

A suspected shooter is now dead, along with one person who was at the rally.

Who was the shooter?

Per CNN, authorities state that the suspected gunman was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. He was identified in a statement early Sunday morning and named as a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, which just just south of where the rally was held. He was shot by authorities.

Crooks was a registered Republican, though, as CNN reported, “Federal Election Commission records show that a donor listed as Thomas Crooks with the same address gave $15 to a Democratic-aligned political action committee called the Progressive Turnout Project in January 2021.” Reuters notes that he made that donation when he was 17.

The 2024 election would have been the first presidential election that Crooks would be eligible to vote.

As ABC News states, the suspected shooter is believe to be a “lone wolf.”

How did the shooting happen?

As the report from ABC News explains, “The gunman opened fire with a rifle from the roof of a building about 200 to 300 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking. A U.S. Secret Service counter-sniper team immediately killed the individual.”

The building is said to be one-story and eyewitnesses have reported seeing a man climb to the top of the roof with a rifle and attempted to warn security about him before the shooting.

Though other reports (including one from TMZ) had initially stated that Trump was not actually shot and he was bleeding due to glass from a teleprompter, Reuters says that he “was shot in the ear.”

Source: Trump Shooting Breakdown: What Exactly Happened? Here’s Everything We Know So Far

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