Explosive devices have been found inside a suspected gunman’s car and at his home after Donald Trump was shot and wounded at a campaign rally, according to reports.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was shot dead after firing eight shots from the roof of a building near the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, striking Trump’s right ear. A spectator was killed and two others were critically injured during the shooting.
Crooks was reportedly spotted acting suspiciously near metal detectors by local police officers prior to the shooting.
The officers alerted the Secret Service to Crooks’ presence and radioed for officers to monitor him, law enforcement sources told the network.
Bomb components were found in a vehicle that Crooks had parked near the rally and at his home in Bethel Park, according to the Associated Press.
A Trump rally spectator who was shot dead on Saturday has been named by family members as Corey Comperatore.
Comperatore, 50, was a hero who was killed while protecting his daughters from the hail of gunfire, his sister Dawn Comperatore Schafer wrote on Facebook.
Two other people were critically wounded during the shooting and are being treated at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
