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Trump shooting live updates: Secret Service killed Trump rally shooter 26 seconds after first shot
One spectator was killed and two were hurt in Saturday's shooting.
Federal authorities are investigating after former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
The alleged shooter was killed by snipers. One spectator was killed and two were hurt, officials said.
Latest headlines:
- Secret Service killed Trump rally shooter 26 seconds after first shot
- Trump not expected to attend funeral of man killed at rally
- Video obtained by WTAE appears to show gunman pacing beyond boundaries of rally
- House Homeland Security Committee asks state, local law enforcement to testify
- Secret Service requested local police cruiser at building where shooter was
What we know about the shooting
As the FBI investigation continues, questions are swirling about how a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man was able to ascend undetected to a roof near a Trump rally, gain a direct line of sight and fire several rounds at the former president. Read more here.
Suspected gunman had searched for Trump’s rally date, DNC convention
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected gunman in the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last Saturday, searched on his phone for the dates of the former president’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and for dates of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.
Crooks also searched on his phone for images of both the former president and current president, sources said.
The suspect’s phone search history revealed no indication of his political views.
-ABC News' Aaron Katersky
Secret Service killed Trump rally shooter 26 seconds after first shot
Law enforcement officials investigating the assassination attempt on Donald Trump told lawmakers today in an unclassified briefing that 20 minutes passed between the time Secret Service snipers first spotted Crooks on the roof and the time shots were fired at the former president, according to several law enforcement officials and lawmakers briefed on the matter.
According to this source, briefers said the snipers spotted him on the roof at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m., 20 minutes later.
The briefing was conducted by the FBI Director, his Deputy Director and the head of the USSS.
In addition, briefers told lawmakers Crooks was identified as a person of interest a full 62 minutes before the shooting took place.
From the time he fired his first shot to Crooks being killed was just 26 seconds, according to law enforcement officials. Eleven seconds after the first shot, USSS counter snipers acquired their target -- and 15 seconds after that, Crooks was shot dead.
Trump not expected to attend funeral of man killed at rally
Former President Donald Trump is not expected to attend the funeral of Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old spectator who was shot and killed at Saturday's rally, sources told ABC News.
Comperatore, a firefighter, died shielding his family from the gunfire, officials said. He’s survived by his wife and two daughters.
Comperatore’s obituary said friends can pay their respects on Thursday. Funeral services will be private, the obituary said.
-ABC News’ Soorin Kim, Kelsey Walsh and Lalee Ibssa
Video obtained by WTAE appears to show gunman pacing beyond boundaries of rally
New video obtained exclusively by Pittsburgh ABC affiliate WTAE appears to show gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks pacing just beyond the boundaries of the Trump rally at 5:06 p.m. Saturday -- about 1 hour and 5 minutes before shots were first fired. Law enforcement sources said they believe this video shows Crooks.