Trump rally witness recounts victim shot dead

By AFP 14 July 2024, 5:54 am 2 Edit

People react during a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A witness to Saturday’s shooting at a Donald Trump rally recalls how a man next to him was shot dead during the apparent assassination attempt on the Republican presidential candidate.

“I heard several gunshots. The man beside me suffered a gun shot to the head, was instantly killed (and) fell to the bottom of the bleachers. Another woman looked like she got hit in the forearm or hand,” the man, whose name was only given as Joseph, tells NBC News.

He says it seemed the victim was “in the way of the shots between whoever was shooting the gun and the president.”