(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) Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show grounds during a Trump rally. Twenty-year-old assassin Thomas Crooks of Bethel Park shot Trump in the ear during the July 13th, 2024 event and was then killed that day by a team with snipers from the Secret Service. There is still an unknown reason as to why Crooks wanted to shoot Trump on that day last year in Butler.