Donald Trump has been shot and injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally, which saw a spectator and the gunman killed.
The former president escaped with a bullet wound to his ear in the attack, which happened early on Saturday evening as the former president was giving a speech to supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Pittsburgh.
Mr Trump was seen ducking to the ground as a series of shots rang out and people screamed in panic.
He was mobbed by Secret Service seeking to shield him and as he was bundled off stage to a waiting armoured vehicle with a bloodied ear, Mr Trump pumped his fist in the air in a show of defiance and shouted “fight” as the cheering audience chanted “USA”.
As well as one person in the crowd being killed, two people were critically injured after the gunman fired “multiple shots” from an “elevated position” from outside the rally venue, said the Secret Service.
The FBI has named the attacker – shot dead by security forces – as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who according to state records was a registered Republican.
Footage at the scene showed a white-roofed factory building, about 150m from where Mr Trump was speaking, with a body and a rifle on top.
Writing on his Truth Social platform, Mr Trump said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear”.
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He said: “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” he said on social media.
“Much bleeding took place, so I realised then what was happening.”