Trump Butler Assassination Attempt Victim Dies After Suffering From Wounds Following Attack

Jim Copenhaver, wounded when a gunman opened fire at Donald Trump's July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died, according to his family and Slippery Rock Mayor Jondavid Longo, who confirmed the news Thursday. The shooting that day grazed Trump's ear, killed retired firefighter Corey Compatore, and left Copenhaver and another attendee wounded, according to Daily Caller.

Longo wrote online that Copenhaver "was shot twice at the Butler rally" and, although he survived, "never fully recovered," enduring two years of surgeries and lingering fragments and pain before his death. His family described him as a veteran whose devotion to the country "never wavered," calling him "a true American patriot."

Before he died, Copenhaver filed suit against the Secret Service on June 1, accusing the agency of negligence, recklessness and carelessness in the run-up to the shooting carried out by Thomas Crooks. The lawsuit contended that agents had been alerted to danger well beforehand, since Crooks had been noticed behaving erratically for hours and was already being actively searched for by security before he reached a rooftop and fired eight rounds, an attack that ended when a counter-sniper killed him. Copenhaver's attorneys were contacted for comment but did not reply. Separately, HeadlineUSA editor Ken Silva wrote online that Copenhaver had continued living with bullet fragments still lodged in his body as a lasting result of the attack.

Summarized by PolitiKool from Daily Caller’s reporting. Read the full story at Daily Caller →