Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania [6][7] Trump was shot and wounded in his upper right ear [8][9][10] by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, [3][11] who fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle from a nearby building's roof [3][12][13] Crooks also killed an audience member, Corey Comperatore, and critically injured two others [3]
A timeline of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13 A former fire chief attending the rally with family was killed, as was the gunman Two other people were critically wounded
Trump rushed out of dinner amid reports of shots fired The defendant, Cole Tomas Allen, faces two counts of federal gun crimes and one of attempting to assassinate President Trump during the White House correspondents’ dinner