An emergency room physician in the audience for Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally rushed to the aid of a badly injured rallygoer after a sniper targeting the former president rained bullets on the unsuspecting crowd.
“I heard the shots, I thought it was firecrackers to begin with. Somebody over there was screaming ‘he’s been shot, he’s been shot,’” the man, wearing a Make America Great Again baseball cap and a white “USA” shirt soaked with blood told a CBS News reporter outside the rally grounds.
The doctor said he walked over to the injured man and saw him “jammed” between the rally bleachers, bleeding badly from a headshot with visible “brain matter,” he grimly recalled.
Everything we know about apparent Trump assassination attempt
- Former President Donald Trump was targeted by a shooter during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania
- Trump’s face was grazed by a bullet during the shooting
- The gunman and one bystander have been killed
- President Biden addressed the nation and referred to the shooting as sick, saying he “tried to get ahold of Donald”
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He said with the help of other rallygoers he was able to get the man onto a flat surface and administer CPR.
It was not immediately known whether the gravely wounded audience member was the man authorities said was killed at the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pa. in addition to the shooter.