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Trump mourns death of Jim Copenhaver, wounded in 2024 Butler rally shooting
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2024 shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.
On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open-air campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Meridian, Pennsylvania, just outside Butler. Trump was shot and wounded in his upper right ear by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle from a nearby building's roof.
More on Wikipedia ↗President Donald Trump on Thursday called Jim Copenhaver “a true American Patriot” after the Pennsylvania man, wounded in the July 2024 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, died at age 76.
President Trump this week mourned the death of Jim Copenhaver, a rallygoer who was shot during the 2024 Butler assassination attempt.
President Donald Trump has responded to the second death of a victim of the shooting at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, honoring him as a “true American patriot.”