Seeing Crooks pointing the gun at him, the officer retreated down the ladder, and Crooks quickly aimed and fired around eight shots at the former president.
The final hearing for British zoologist Adam Britton, charged with severe animal cruelty and facing 249 years in prison, has been postponed to August. His lawyer presented a new report on Britton's mental state, arguing for a reduced sentence based on his condition of paraphilia.
A video captures a woman's desperate screams as a gunman aims at Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by Secret Service snipers after injuring Trump in an assassination attempt.
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman with an AR-style rifle was able to get so close and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the suspect in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally, where he was shot and killed by Secret Service agents. The incident resulted in one death, two critical injuries, and a minor wound to Trump.
U.S. media reports that at the age of 17, he donated $15 to the liberal ActBlue political action committee on January 20, 2021, Biden's Inauguration Day.