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© WPXIHelicopter airlifts shooting victims from the Trump rally in Butler, PA to a Pittsburgh hospital, July 13, 2024
Pennsylvania State Police have released information about the men who are recovering in a hospital after they were shot at the Donald Trump rally in Butler County on Saturday.
Troopers say David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington was shot at the rally. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition but has since been listed in stable condition.
James Copenhaver, 74, from Moon Township was also shot. At this time, he is listed in stable condition after he was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Both men were taken to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh to be treated.
The Marine Corps League of Pennsylvania said David Dutch is a Marine. They said he was shot in the liver and chest and underwent surgery Sunday morning. They also said he was put in an induced coma. The MCL asked the public to pray for Dutch and his family.
Former fire chief Corey Comperatore from Sarvor was the third spectator shot at the Trump rally. He died at the scene.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
Comment: The
New York Post reports that a relative of Donald Trump's White House physician, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, was also injured in the shooting
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) revealed that his nephew was one of the rallygoers nicked by a would-be assassin's bullet during a campaign event for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Jackson, who previously served as Trump's physician and chief White House medical adviser during his administration, said he and family were gathered at the Butler Farm Show grounds to hear the former president speak — before shots began to ring out.
"They heard the shots, and everybody dropped to the ground," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity later that evening.
They heard the shots," Jackson said of his nephew and sister-in-law who attended the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. "He was grazed in the neck, a bullet crossed his neck, cut his neck and he was bleeding,".Jackson added, pointing out that the friends and family pen where they were staged was "in the line of fire."
The 45th president was nearly shot dead himself but revealed in a Truth Social post after visiting a Pittsburgh-area hospital that he "felt the bullet ripping through [his] skin," and that it "pierced the upper part of my right ear."
Another attendee was killed and two were critically injured in the shooting, US Secret Service later confirmed.
Jackson's nephew was also attended to in a triage tent after the incident.
Comment: The New York Post reports that a relative of Donald Trump's White House physician, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, was also injured in the shooting