Authorities declined late Saturday to name the shooter who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a rally in western Pennsylvania earlier that same day.
Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said the attacker, who has been described as a 20-year-old white male, opened fire roughly 10 to 15 minutes after Trump took the stage at the Butler Farm Show Grounds, grazing his ear before Secret Service agents surrounded the former president and escorted him off the stage.
One victim died at the scene and two more are critically wounded, Bivens added.
“Law enforcement acted heroically,” he said, noting that they worked “quickly” to “neutralize the threat.”
Law enforcement said they are still investigating a motive and are awaiting DNA results to confirm the shooter’s identity. They said there’s no existing threat out there but aren’t sure he worked alone.
Bivens also declined to specify what weapon the shooter used, though eyewitnesses have described seeing a man crawling across a roof holding a rifle.
The FBI also deflected questions from reporters about security measures taken by the U.S. Secret Service to secure the area before the rally began. Bivens said the shooter fired from a rooftop outside of that perimeter but declined to give more specifics.
This is a developing story.
