Butler County’s District Attorney Richard Goldinger says the scene of the rally and shooting is currently chaotic.
“I have been told it is chaos, and it’s just, I can’t even give you a number of people that are there, but it’s really crazy,” he told CNN.
Law enforcement officers work at the campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Credit: nna\advidler
Goldinger said investigations were under way as to how the gunman was able to get into a location to give him a clear shot at Trump.
“I don’t know how he would have gone to the location where he was, but he was outside the grounds, and I think that’s something that we’re going to have to figure out,” he told CNN.
He added that the shooting was “mind-blowing” and not something seen in the United States since the attempted assassination of then-president Ronald Reagan in 1981.
“Sadly, maybe it’s just the state of our current political situation, but I mean, you just wouldn’t even think it would happen, especially in where I live, in Butler County, you would not expect this.”
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