20-year-old Republican What is known about Trump assassin Thomas C.

Thomas C. (20) shot Donald Trump at an election campaign event. The first details are now emerging. C. is said to have been a Republican voter, but made a small donation to the Democrats.

Thomas C. shot Donald Trump on Saturday evening (local time) in Butler in the US state of Pennsylvania , injuring him in the ear. This was confirmed by the authorities in a media conference early Sunday morning Swiss time. The New York Post had initially reported.

C. was a 20-year-old registered Republican who had previously made a small contribution to a group close to the Democrats, according to public records. CNN reports.

According to a local media report, he graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022. C. was registered as a Republican on the local voter registry. He could have voted for the first time this year.

Not known to the police

In January 2021, C. allegedly donated 15 dollars to the Democratic Party and the Biden campaign. The exact background to this donation was not initially disclosed.

C. lived in Bethel Park, a small town around an hour south of Butler. According to the New York Times, the shooter was not previously known to the police.

C. was shot by a sniper after firing several shots at Trump. According to the authorities, he used an AR-15 type weapon, a light semi-automatic rifle, for the attempted attack. He had positioned himself on a roof around 100 meters away from the stage, it was said. Exactly how C. was able to get onto the roof is under investigation.

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CNN reached the father of the Trump shooter, Thomas C., late Saturday night. He was trying to find out "what the hell is going on", the father said. He first wanted to "talk to the law enforcement authorities" before talking about his son.