Former US President, Donald Trump, was rushed off stage during a rally in Pennsylvania after a gunman fired multiple rounds from an “elevated position” on Sunday morning.
Trump said a bullet pierced the “upper part” of his right ear, in a post on social media.
Shots rang out as he was speaking at the event in Pennsylvania, sparking panic in the crowd as Secret Service agents swarmed the former president.
Trump, who emerged with a bloodied face, says he was shot in the ear, describing a “whizzing sound” and feeling a “bullet ripping through skin”.
One person was killed and two others injured. All three victims are adult males, according to law enforcement.
The FBI has identified the suspected gunman. Secret Service shot and killed the gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
At an earlier press conference, FBI field officer Kevin Rojek confirmed that the incident was being treated as an assassination attempt.
Law enforcement officers were pressed on the response time to the gunman.
State Police said it’s “too early” to determine what happened as “everything unfolded very quickly”.
Rojek praised the secret service on site and state and local partners, saying they reacted “immediately”.
State Police said they’re following up on reports that a witness saw the shooter on the roof.
Reports says Trump has returned to his home in New Jersey after he was injured in an attempted assassination at a rally on Saturday. (BBC)
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