A dramatic photo captured the moment that a bullet whizzed right past President Donald Trump’s head during the assassination attempt at his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills.
Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination. pic.twitter.com/FqmLBCytoW
— Haraz N. Ghanbari (@HarazGhanbari) July 14, 2024
“A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills,” wrote state Rep. Haraz N. Ghanbari on X. “Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination.”
The head-tilt that saved Donald Trump’s life. pic.twitter.com/eWmHwGdaWb
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 14, 2024
Trump survived the assassination attempt, and pumped his fist defiantly in the air after it, although he was left bloodied, possibly from shattered teleprompter glass. However, the Secret Service said in a news release that “one spectator was killed, and two spectators were critically injured.” The Secret Service said that “a suspected shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue.”
The shooter is dead after “Secret Service personnel neutralized the shooter,” the release says. The assassin has not been named.
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
He wrote that “nothing is known at this time about the shooter” and offered condolences to the family of the person killed and the person “badly injured.”
A witness who was outside President Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally told BBC on video that he saw the shooting suspect “crawling, bear crawling, up the roof beside us, 50 feet away from us.”
At first, the witness said, he didn’t know why a man was “crawling up the roof. There are only a few buildings around here. Why isn’t the Secret Service on every building?”
Another video, which you can watch below, showed what rally attendees said was the suspect’s body on a roof. The attempted assassin appears to be wearing camouflage clothing.
BREAKING: Trump rally attendees claim the suspect was on top of a building near the rally and was k*lled by the Secret Service sniper team.
The reports are currently unconfirmed but a new video shows a body on top of a nearby structure.
A body was also seen at the event being… pic.twitter.com/RIsRRWnAt5
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 13, 2024
The witness’s account raised serious questions about how the gunman was allowed to access the roof without the Secret Service securing it or noticing.
OMG. pic.twitter.com/64tckobsYE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
We “pointed at the guy crawling up the roof. You could clearly see him with a rifle,” the witness, whose name was not given, told BBC on video. He said he and others in his group frantically tried to point the man out to the Secret Service and police, but no one acted for several minutes. And he questioned why Secret Service agents weren’t positioned on every roof in the area.
Man at Trump rally claims to have seen the shooter on a roof and to have seen the shooter killed by the secret service. BBC interview: pic.twitter.com/bT6eTtIMRx
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 13, 2024
X CEO Elon Musk shared the BBC’s video, writing, “The head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail should resign.”
A witness told CNN that the deceased victim was in the bleachers when he was shot.
“His family watched his happen. They were in the bleachers when he got hit and went down. They were trying to figure out what was going on. They were screaming for help. They put a towel over the man’s head. The body was removed from the bleachers,” another witness told CNN. “The police came back right after and tried to move the family. They were all in shock. They weren’t processing what was going on. He was dead the minute he was hit. It reminded me of the Zapruder film from Kennedy. His head snapped and that was it.”
