UPDATE (July 14, 2024, 8:14 a.m. ET): This story has been updated to include the FBI’s identification of the gunman and former President Donald Trump’s statement Sunday morning.
Former President Donald Trump said a bullet “pierced” part of his right ear during a shooting at his campaign rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday, according to a statement he shared on Truth Social.
The statement was Trump’s first since the shooting, which happened around 6 p.m. earlier that night in a township near Butler, located roughly 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Read Trump’s statement in full below:
Secret Service agents “neutralized” the gunman, who had been positioned outside the rally venue, according to the Secret Service. The shooting left one rally attendee dead and two others critically injured, officials said.
The shooter was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, the FBI said. A motive was not clear.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee released a joint statement hours after the shooting on Saturday confirming the Republican National Convention will proceed next week in Milwaukee.
“President Trump looks forward to joining you all in Milwaukee as we proceed with our convention to nominate him to serve as the 47th President of the United States,” according to the joint statement. “As our party’s nominee, President Trump will continue to share his vision to Make America Great Again.”
On Sunday morning, Trump shared another post on Truth Social addressing the assassination attempt:
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
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