Trump rally shooting live: FBI names ‘subject involved’ in assassination attempt

The FBI has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, the agency said in a statement on Sunday, according to Reuters and Associated Press.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the airspace over the Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was closed “effective immediately” for special security reasons, Reuters reported.

The suspected shooter was from Bethel Park.

CNN reports that the 20-year old who authorities identified in connection to the attempted assassination was a registered Republican who had previously made a small contribution to a Democratic-aligned group.

Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister who is a supporter of Donald Trump and met with the former president a few days ago in Florida, said his “thoughts and prayers” are with Trump “in these dark hours.”

As Europe wakes up this morning, heads of government are expressing shock at the news from the US.

“France shares the shock and indignation of the American people,” wrote Emmanuel Macron, the French president.

“What we saw last night from Pennsylvania was frightening and wrong,” wrote Irish leader Simon Harris.

“It is a relief that former President Trump is safe and survived the assassination attempt. Our hearts are with the innocent spectators killed and critically injured. There can be no place for political violence,” he added.

Austria’s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said he is “appalled by the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania and wish him quick and full recovery.”

Possible security lapses in focus after Trump rally shooting

The US secret service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former president Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press reports.

The secret service said the gunman fired multiple shots at the stage from an high position outside of the rally venue on Saturday. Secret Service agents killed the gunman, who has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

The gunman, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue”, the agency said.

An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos from the scene of the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage. The roof where the body lay was less than 150 meters from where Trump was speaking.

According to Reuters, Republican lawmakers said they would launch swift investigations into how the sniper apparently managed to evade Secret Service agents and climb onto the roof of a building near where Donald Trump was speaking at an election rally and fire multiple shots before being killed.

Republican House speaker Mike Johnson said on social media that the House will have “Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP”.

The FBI has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, the agency said in a statement on Sunday, according to Reuters and Associated Press.

Here’s a roundup of the reactions from world leaders condemning the shooting at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally.

The US secret service has confirmed Donald Trump is safe after the shooting at his Pennsylvania rally.

In a statement posted on the social media platform X, spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said:

The Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the former president is safe. This is now an active Secret Service investigation and further information will be released when available.

Multiple shots were heard at the outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shortly after Trump began his speech.

Body guards then crowded around Trump as he ducked below the podium and armed officers took up positions at the front of the stage. Trump repeatedly raised his fist to the crowd and shouted as he was escorted to a vehicle by the US secret service.

Law enforcement officials say they believe they know who carried out the shooting at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, but will not be releasing his name until there’s an official confirmation.

Authorities are doing DNA testing to confirm his identity because the suspect did not have ID.

“It’s a matter of doing biometric confirmations,” FBI special agent in charge Kevin Rojek said. “There was no identification on the individual, for example, so we’re looking at photographs right now and we’re trying to run his DNA and get biometric confirmation.”

Donald Trump has landed in New Jersey hours after being shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.

The former president was seen walking down aircraft steps after landing in Newark about six hours after the rally shooting.

Here’s a summary of what we’ve learned from the police press conference:

FBI is looking into Trump rally shooting as “an assassination attempt” against the former US president.

Authorities say the shooter was male, and they have tentatively identified him but are not prepared to publicly release that information.

Police have not identified an official motive.

All three victims of the shooting, two critically injured and one killed are male.

Police are appealing to the public for any information and cell phone footage.

The investigation is expected to take days, weeks and months.

No police were hit will bullets during the shooting.

The suspected shooter at Donald Trump’s rally was male, the Pennsylvania state police said at a press briefing early Sunday.

The suspect, who is deceased, was not identified at the briefing, which was held at Butler, Pennsylvania, close to the site of the rally on Saturday. The three rally attenders who were shot are adult males, George Bivens, deputy commissioner of operations for the Pennsylvania state police, said at the briefing.

One of the victims has died.

Law enforcement say the priority is to identity the motive of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and if anyone else was involved.

They also confirm there will be days, weeks and months of investigation.

Police confirm all three victims of the shooting were adults and male.

No police were hit with bullets during shooting.

 

Updated: Juli 14, 2024 — 6:43 am

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