LOOK: 20-year-old man identified as Trump shooter
The FBI has identified the shooter who opened fire at a Trump rally and was later killed.
Former US president Donald Trump was rushed off stage during a campaign rally on Saturday after bullets went flying at the event, leaving the politician with a bloodied ear.
Video footage of the incident showed Trump talking to the crowd when he suddenly clutched his ear as the sound of a gun fire echoed through the crowd.
I just landed and missed an assignation attempt. Holy shit. What a bad ass reaction from Trump. The election is over. He's the next president. The Dems should give up. They can't beat him now. pic.twitter.com/omtbue191d
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 13, 2024
Footage of Donald Trump’s shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire and then getting killed seconds later surfaces pic.twitter.com/2ctMtIkwUs
— Kollege Kidd Media (@KKMediaTingz) July 14, 2024
The FBI has now identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of nearby Bethel Park.
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According to CNN, Crooks was about to reach a political milestone by being able to vote in the country's National Elections in November.
He had allegedly been showing potential interest in politics, having made a small political donation as a teenager and registering to vote just a week after turning 18.
During the attack, the 20-year-old killed one spectator and critically injured two others before being killed by the Secret Service.
UPDATE: Donald Trump rally shooter identified as 20-year-old Pennsylvania man.
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) July 14, 2024
Trump’s upper part of his right ear was pierced in the shooting. Two spectators were critically injured, authorities said. The man killed was Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief from the area who… pic.twitter.com/ZQO8K129RO
Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, was ID'd as the shooter. He was eliminated.
— Peché Africa 🇿🇦 (@pmcafrica) July 14, 2024
An AR-15 was reportedly recovered at the scene. #Trump pic.twitter.com/tTEJmsgSXu
The spectator killed in the shooting that targeted former president Donald Trump has been identified as Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter and father of two who died shielding his family from the gunshots.
Comperatore "died a real-life superhero", one of his daughters, Allyson, said in a Facebook post after the attempted assassination of Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
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"He threw my mom and I to the ground... (and) shielded my body from the bullet that came at us," she continued.
She described her father as "the best dad a girl could ever ask for," someone always ready to help and quick to "make friends with anyone."
Post from Allyson Comperatore.
— Matt Stewart (@MattStewartTV) July 14, 2024
Her Dad was murdered at the Trump rally.
Please read. The last thing her Dad did on this planet was cover her and her Mom and took the bullet instead.
John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." pic.twitter.com/df9TZGkTk4
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