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Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election, was injured in the right ear during a shooting incident on July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
The shooter was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Law enforcement personnel and witnesses said Crooks crawled onto a roof outside the rally venue and fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style semi-automatic rifle before being killed by a Secret Service Counter Assault Team sniper.
Trump was then sent to hospital and released in a stable condition, departing by plane to New Jersey. A rally attendee was killed, while two other attendees were critically injured