In the United States, former president and republican candidate Donald Trump was wounded at a campaign rally in the state of Pennsylvania after several gunshots were fired.
U.S. Secret Service reported two people were killed, a spectator of the rally and the shooter, who was neutralized on a rooftop in an adjacent building to the raly grounds. Authorities also reported that two other attendees are critically injured. The Secret Service said the former president is safe after he was rushed off the rally stage with blood on his face.
U.S. Secret Service reported two people were killed, a spectator of the rally and the shooter, who was neutralized on a rooftop in an adjacent building to the raly grounds. Authorities also reported that two other attendees are critically injured. The Secret Service said the former president is safe after he was rushed off the rally stage with blood on his face.
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00:00We begin with the news. In the United States, former President and Republican candidate
00:03Donald Trump was wounded at a campaign rally in the state of Pennsylvania after several
00:08gunshots were fired. The U.S. Secret Service reported two people were killed, a spectator
00:12of the rally and the shooter, who was neutralized on a rooftop in an adjacent building to the
00:17rally grounds. Authorities also reported that two other attendees are critically injured.
00:22The Secret Service said the former president is safe after he was rushed off the rally
00:27stage with blood on his face. According to law enforcement officials, the shooting is
00:31being investigated as an attempted assassination.
00:39And after the shooting at the campaign event where President and candidate Donald Trump
00:42was wounded, some witnesses reported seeing a man walking on a rooftop, which they reported
00:47to the authorities.
00:49I was up at the fence line, saw the guy move from roof to roof, talked, told an officer
00:57that he was on the roof. The officer come looking, I went back to him, heard that there
01:06was somebody that could see the person. So I went back to where they were standing, saw
01:12the person, went back and told the officer again that if he goes back to that particular
01:17spot, he can see the person, figuring that he would go on radio. And when I turned around
01:22to go back to where I was is when the gunshots started. And then it was just chaos and we
01:29all came running away.
01:35The FBI identified the shooter who attacked former President Donald Trump as 20-year-old
01:39Thomas Matthew Crooks, a white man originally from Bethel Park in the state of Pennsylvania.
01:45According to several U.S. media, Crooks was registered as a Republican voter. Images of
01:50the attacker shooting from a rooftop 137 meters away from the Republican candidate spread
01:55in social media. So far, the subject motivations are unknown. Also, it is still not clear if
02:00the shooter acted alone or had accomplices.
02:07Former President Donald Trump arrived after midnight at a Newark airport in New Jersey
02:11and got off his private plane in apparent condition. It is unknown if the former president
02:16will have any activity this Sunday. His campaign team has already confirmed that his presence
02:21is expected on Monday at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, where the party will formalize
02:26its candidacy for the elections.
02:33Now let's take a look at updated figures on the coverage of gun violence published by
02:37the Gun Violence Archive Organization in the United States. So far this year, 2,024
02:42to 2,091 mass shootings have been reported in the United States. Among these, at least
02:4616 massacres or mass murders have been reported, meaning events in which more than four people
02:51died. But the number of people killed in gun-related episodes amounted to 9,088. It is reported
02:59that 127 were children under 11 years of age and 636 were adolescents, for a total
03:05of 763 minors.
03:10Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken out and pledged to safeguard the rights
03:15of gun owners in the country should he win the presidential election. In official statements
03:20to the press, a Republican Party standard-bearer expressed his refusal to maintain stricter
03:25controls on access to firearms after the massacre at a school in Texas and said that decent
03:30citizens should carry guns to defend themselves. The presidential candidate also added that
03:34guns are necessary to provide security in schools and plans to arm teachers at the National
03:39Rifle Association Convention. These statements by former President Trump came a year before
03:44the recent attempt on his life during a rally in the state of Pennsylvania, from which he
03:48escaped with his life and is being treated by medical personnel.
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