The FBI has identified the shooter in the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Pennsylvania, US media reported early Sunday.
"The FBI has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the subject involved in the assassination attempt
of former President Donald Trump on July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania," the
FBI said in a statement quoted by NBC and CBS.
A witness to Saturday's shooting at a Trump rally told how
a man next to him was shot dead during the apparent assassination attempt on
the Republican presidential candidate.
"I heard several gunshots. The man beside me suffered
a gun shot to the head, was instantly killed (and) fell to the bottom of the
bleachers. Another woman looked like she got hit in the forearm or hand,"
the man, whose name was only given as Joseph, told NBC News.
He said it seemed the victim was "in the way of the
shots between whoever was shooting the gun and the president."
A second witness, an unnamed man who said he was an
emergency doctor, described trying to help one of the victims.
"Somebody over there was screaming he's been shot,
he's been shot, so I made my way over, I said I'm an emergency department
physician, let me help you," said the man, who was wearing a white USA
T-shirt stained with blood and a red MAGA hat.
"The guy had spun around, was jammed between the
benches. He had a headshot here," he said, indicating a spot on his head.
"There's lots of blood and he had brain matter,"
the man continued in comments that spread widely through US media.
Trump said he was hit in the ear but was not seriously
injured by the gunman, who was killed after the incident.
Two other spectators were critically injured, the Secret
Service said.
US President Joe Biden has spoken to his election rival
Trump, a White House official said, after the Republican was injured in an
apparent assassination attempt at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
"This evening, President Biden spoke to former
President Trump," the official said, adding that the US incumbent would
receive an updated briefing from law enforcement officials on the incident on
Sunday morning. IOL
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