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(NewsNation) — Following a shooting Saturday astatine a run rally for erstwhile President Donald Trump successful Pennsylvania, instrumentality enforcement sources accidental they’re investigating the onslaught arsenic an attempted assassination.
The attack, by a shooter who instrumentality enforcement officials accidental was past killed by the Secret Service, was the archetypal effort to assassinate a president oregon statesmanlike campaigner since erstwhile President Ronald Reagan was changeable by John Hinckley Jr. successful 1981.
A section authoritative said the suspected gunman and astatine slightest 1 rally attendee were killed.
The president, according to Trump run officials, is "fine."
Two officials who spoke to The Associated Press connected the information of anonymity to sermon the probe said the shooter was not an attendee astatine the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents.
The officials said the shooter was engaged by members of the U.S. Secret Service counterassault squad and killed.
The heavy equipped tactical squad travels everyplace with the president and large enactment nominees and is meant to face immoderate progressive threats portion different agents absorption connected safeguarding and evacuating the idiosyncratic astatine the halfway of protection.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
