Former President Donald Trump was rushed off stage after gunfire erupted at his rally in Pennsylvania, in an apparent assassination attempt.
Trump winced and reached for his right ear before ducking as Secret Service agents quickly surrounded him and escorted him to a waiting vehicle.
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“I knew something was wrong immediately after hearing the shots and feeling the bullet hit,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network. “There was significant bleeding, and I understood what was happening.”
The assailant was shot and killed at the scene by Secret Service officers, according to agency spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi. One bystander was killed and two others critically injured in the incident.
Law enforcement sources informed CBS News that the shooter was armed with a rifle and fired from an elevated structure a few hundred meters away from the venue. The FBI is treating the incident as an assassination attempt.
Witnesses described the scene as chaotic but said people remained relatively calm. “We could see him with a rifle,” said Greg, a witness who noticed a suspicious individual on the building’s roof. “We were pointing him out to the police, but they seemed unaware.”
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The Republican presidential candidate had just begun addressing his supporters in Butler, a key swing state for the upcoming November election, when the shots rang out.
Trump was being treated at a local medical center for a graze wound to his right ear.
