UPDATE: Trump survives assassination attempt | WATCH how it happened(Video)
UPDATE: Trump survives assassination attempt | WATCH how it happened(Video)
Key notes
Shooting under investigation as assassination attempt
Slain suspect identified as 20-year-old Pennsylvania man
Suspect was registered as Republican, had also made donation to Democrats
Trump’s campaign says he is doing well with only a minor ear wound
BUTLER, Pennsylvania, July 14 (Reuters) – Donald Trump survived a weekend assassination attempt days before he is due to accept the formal Republican presidential nomination, in an attack that will further inflame the U.S. political divide and has raised questions about the security lapses.
Trump, 78, had just begun a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Pittsburgh, on Saturday when shots rang out, hitting the former president’s right ear and streaking his face with blood.
“Fight! Fight! Fight!” Trump mouthed to supporters, pumping his fist, as Secret Service agents rushed him away. His campaign said he was doing well and appeared to have suffered no major injury besides a wound on his upper right ear.
The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the suspect in what it called an attempted assassination. He was a registered Republican, according to state voter records and had made a $15 donation to a Democratic political action committee at the age of 17.
Watch how the incident happened below
