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On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, the former president of the United States and at that time the Republican Party's presumptive nominee in the 2024 presidential election, was shot and wounded in his right ear while addressing a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, fired eight rounds with an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a nearby building outside the rally venue. He killed audience member Corey Comperatore, and critically injured two other audience members. Crooks was then shot and killed by the U.S. Secret Service's counter-sniper team. The incident is being investigated as an attempted assassination and as a potential act of domestic terrorism.
