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Trump rally shooting: local Swat officer fired first shot knocking gunman down
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Congress report says shot hit would-be assassin’s weapon, wounding him before he was killed by Secret Service sniper
The first shot back at the would-be assassin who was firing at Donald Trump last month was from local law enforcement and hit the gunman’s weapon, briefly knocking him down, a preliminary report from the US Congress has revealed.
The gunman was wounded by fragments flying from the damaged weapon and then, as he got back up, he was killed by a federal sniper, the report found.
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