(The Center Square) – Butler County, Pa., District Attorney Richard Goldinger confirmed that the shooter in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was killed, one spectator was killed, and a second bystander was in serious condition after the attack at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Goldinger said the shooter was outside the rally grounds and he wasn’t sure if authorities knew the identity of the shooter.
“Quite frankly, we don’t know how he got to the location,” Goldinger said. “That is something we are going to have to figure out, how he got there.”
Goldinger said at about 8 p.m. that the scene of the Trump rally was chaos.
“It’s chaos,” Goldinger said. “It’s really crazy right now.”
Goldinger said that “maybe we got a little lackadaisical” in thinking that an assassination attempt would heppen to a president or former president.
“You wouldn’t even think this would happen,” Goldinger said. “It’s mind blowing.”
President Joe Biden held a short press conference and said he hoped to talk to Trump soon.
“Look, there is no place in America for this kind of violence,” Biden said. “It is sick. Sick. We cannot condone this. … Everybody must condemn it.”
— Tom Gantert, The Center Square