(File Photo: Source for Photo: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Butler, PA) Government officials stated in a recent report that during President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler back in 2024, Secret Service officials failed to receive more than 100 urgent messages about an active shooter.
According to a release from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General on June 30th, 2026, Secret Service failed to carry out and arrange several security measures during Trump’s then-campaign rally for president at the Butler Fairgrounds on July 13, 2024.
This report was sixty-four pages and outlined the shortcomings of the Secret Service, and stated that members failed to receive 102 radio transmissions from local authorities concerning an “increasingly intense search for a suspicious person.”
The shooter, who was later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, shot Trump, who was grazed by a bullet and sustained an injury to his ear.
The report noted that the Secret Service received only five phone calls and three text messages about Crooks.
These calls included reports that Crooks possessed a range finder and a long gun when he positioned himself on top of the roof of the American Glass Research International Complex.
Fifty-year-old Corey Comperatore was killed and two other attendees were injured as a result of this incident.
A U.S. Secret Service counter-sniper shot and killed the twenty-one-year-old Crooks.
Authorities confirmed that the Secret Service did not establish a joint communications room with representatives from all law enforcement agencies, which, if it was accomplished, could have prevented injury or harm to Trump and attendees of the rally.
