00:00We begin with the news. In the United States, former President and Republican candidate
00:03Donald Trump was wounded at a campaign rally in the state of Pennsylvania after several
00:08gunshots were fired. The U.S. Secret Service reported two people were killed, a spectator
00:12of the rally and the shooter, who was neutralized on a rooftop in an adjacent building to the
00:17rally grounds. Authorities also reported that two other attendees are critically injured.
00:22The Secret Service said the former president is safe after he was rushed off the rally
00:27stage with blood on his face. According to law enforcement officials, the shooting is
00:31being investigated as an attempted assassination.
00:39And after the shooting at the campaign event where President and candidate Donald Trump
00:42was wounded, some witnesses reported seeing a man walking on a rooftop, which they reported
00:47to the authorities.
00:49I was up at the fence line, saw the guy move from roof to roof, talked, told an officer
00:57that he was on the roof. The officer come looking, I went back to him, heard that there
01:06was somebody that could see the person. So I went back to where they were standing, saw
01:12the person, went back and told the officer again that if he goes back to that particular
01:17spot, he can see the person, figuring that he would go on radio. And when I turned around
01:22to go back to where I was is when the gunshots started. And then it was just chaos and we
01:29all came running away.
01:35The FBI identified the shooter who attacked former President Donald Trump as 20-year-old
01:39Thomas Matthew Crooks, a white man originally from Bethel Park in the state of Pennsylvania.
01:45According to several U.S. media, Crooks was registered as a Republican voter. Images of
01:50the attacker shooting from a rooftop 137 meters away from the Republican candidate spread
01:55in social media. So far, the subject motivations are unknown. Also, it is still not clear if
02:00the shooter acted alone or had accomplices.
02:07Former President Donald Trump arrived after midnight at a Newark airport in New Jersey
02:11and got off his private plane in apparent condition. It is unknown if the former president
02:16will have any activity this Sunday. His campaign team has already confirmed that his presence
02:21is expected on Monday at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, where the party will formalize
02:26its candidacy for the elections.
02:33Now let's take a look at updated figures on the coverage of gun violence published by
02:37the Gun Violence Archive Organization in the United States. So far this year, 2,024
02:42to 2,091 mass shootings have been reported in the United States. Among these, at least
02:4616 massacres or mass murders have been reported, meaning events in which more than four people
02:51died. But the number of people killed in gun-related episodes amounted to 9,088. It is reported
02:59that 127 were children under 11 years of age and 636 were adolescents, for a total
03:05of 763 minors.
03:10Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken out and pledged to safeguard the rights
03:15of gun owners in the country should he win the presidential election. In official statements
03:20to the press, a Republican Party standard-bearer expressed his refusal to maintain stricter
03:25controls on access to firearms after the massacre at a school in Texas and said that decent
03:30citizens should carry guns to defend themselves. The presidential candidate also added that
03:34guns are necessary to provide security in schools and plans to arm teachers at the National
03:39Rifle Association Convention. These statements by former President Trump came a year before
03:44the recent attempt on his life during a rally in the state of Pennsylvania, from which he
03:48escaped with his life and is being treated by medical personnel.
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