The FBI has identified the gunman who wounded former president Donald Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Penn.
The shooting, which bloodied Trump as he spoke at a political rally in Pennsylvania Saturday, left one attendee dead and two others critically wounded. It is being investigated as an attempted assassination.
Crooks, who opened fire from a rooftop, was killed by Secret Service members.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
The Secret Service said in a statement Saturday that the shooter “fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside the rally venue.” They recovered an AR-15 style rifle at the scene.