July 14, 2024:
Editor’s note, July 14, 2:30 pm ET: This is a rapidly evolving news story that will be updated with new verified information.
On Saturday, July 13, gunshots rang out as former President Donald Trump addressed a crowd at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Shortly after, Secret Service agents rushed the stage, and Trump was escorted off — his face smeared with blood.
Two people were killed, including the shooter — identified by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year old from Pennsylvania. Two other rally attendees were critically injured. Trump survived — he wrote afterward on Truth Social that a bullet had pierced his upper right ear, and his campaign said he was “fine.”
Amid rampant rumor and speculation, here are the facts as we know them right now — and what we still need to learn to fully understand what happened at the rally.