Trump rally speaker describes putting hand on the head of attendee who was shot
Eyewitnesses who spoke to CNN on Saturday described an awful scene following a shooting at former President Donald Trump맥스카지노s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which one person was killed and two others injured in what맥스카지노s being investigated as a possible assassination attempt.
A man who spoke before Trump at Saturday맥스카지노s rally told CNN that he jumped over a barricade to comfort an individual who was bleeding after being shot.
Rico Elmore spoke to CNN as he walked away from the rally stage. His white shirt was stained with blood from the victim, whom he said he did not know.
Elmore described jumping over the barrier and putting his hand on the head of the attendee who was shot.
맥스카지노All we know is shots were fired, and then I jumped over the barrier and put my hand on the guy맥스카지노s head that was profusely bleeding,맥스카지노 Elmore told CNN.
He said he didn맥스카지노t know the attendee and he was 맥스카지노just a stranger.맥스카지노
Elmore was visibly shaken up but said he was not harmed. He said he only saw one attendee hit and did not see what happened to Trump.
The former president said on Truth Social on Saturday that he was shot in the ear but his campaign said he was otherwise fine. The Secret Service said hours after the shooting that one rally attendee is dead and two others are critically injured. The gunman shot from outside the rally and was 맥스카지노neutralized맥스카지노 by the Secret Service, spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
A law enforcement source and a police officer at the scene told CNN the shooter was positioned on a building rooftop just outside the rally venue. The source said the building was the same one where CNN had seen a heavy police presence following the shooting. The building would have been to Trump맥스카지노s right as he spoke.
Senate Republican candidate Dave McCormick was sitting in the front row of the event. McCormick told CNN he saw the 맥스카지노immediate attack on the president맥스카지노 and a person behind him who appeared to be severely injured.
McCormick told CNN that Trump had just announced him and invited him up to the stage, when about a minute later he heard 맥스카지노a series of shots 맥스카지노 about seven or eight shots 맥스카지노 just 맥스카지노pop, pop, pop.맥스카지노맥스카지노
맥스카지노It was all of a sudden just chaos. The Secret Service immediately covered the president, jumped on top of him, and the crowd immediately went to the ground,맥스카지노 McCormick said.
McCormick said he looked over his shoulder behind him and 맥스카지노it was clear that somebody had been hit.맥스카지노 People around the man were trying to administer first aid, he said, as it took several minutes for medical assistance to get into the crowd because it was so dense.
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McCormick said he and all of the roughly 15,000 attendees in the crowd went through metal detector screening before they entered the rally.
Joseph Meyn told CNN that a man near him was shot.
맥스카지노Very shocking 맥스카지노 a lot of people just thought it was fireworks going off, I knew immediately it was gunfire,맥스카지노 Meyn said.
Meyn, a surgeon from Grove City, Pennsylvania, told CNN he helped carry the man out of the bleachers.
맥스카지노I was at the far right of the podium, where the people sit in the front. I was filming him (Trump) speaking on my phone. Just as I was panning back, I heard seven gunshots in rapid successions, in under two or three seconds,맥스카지노 Meyn said.
Meyn said he looked back in the direction the gunshots had come from. 맥스카지노I saw a man in the bleachers was hit directly in the head and died instantly. 맥스카지노 There was a woman who was hit in the hand and forearm, a noncritical wound.맥스카지노
He said he went over to see if he could render any aid, but another doctor was already helping the woman who맥스카지노d been shot.
맥스카지노I helped carry the body of the man out of the stands. They took the body to the tent behind the bleachers,맥스카지노 Meyn added.
CNN reached Meyn as he was waiting to give a witness statement to the FBI. 맥스카지노They want the data off my phone,맥스카지노 he said. 맥스카지노This is the first Trump rally I맥스카지노ve been to. 맥스카지노 You don맥스카지노t anticipate this stuff to go on, it맥스카지노s pure insanity.맥스카지노