Shooter (20) identified at Donald Trump rally

PENNSYLVANIA – Yearbook images have surfaced of Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, the gunman who opened fire on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania. Crooks is a 20-year-old registered Republican who has donated to Joe Biden in the past.

He fired at least eight bullets from a rooftop just 120 meters from where Trump, 78, was on stage in Butler speaking to thousands of fans at 6:15pm on Saturday. He was shot and killed by Secret Service agents at the rally. Bethel Park School District verified his 2022 graduation and vowed full cooperation with investigators.

Trump’s upper part of his right ear was pierced in the shooting. Two spectators were critically injured, authorities said. The man killed was Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief from the area who Pennsylvania’s governor says died a “hero” by diving onto his family to protect them.