Watch: Trump rally shooting being investigated as assassination attempt leaves spectator dead

One spectator was killed and two others were critically wounded. 

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures while surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents

Law enforcement agents were investigating what they suspected was an attempt to assassinate Donald Trump after a man with a rifle fired shots at him during a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler county, Pennsylvania.

The Secret Service spokesperson, Anthony Gugliemi, said on X that “the former president [was] safe” following several shots, which prompted agents protecting Trump to leap on him amid the ensuing panic. Gugliemi said Secret Service agents then fatally shot the suspected attacker – who had fired toward Trump “from an elevated position outside of the rally venue”, Gugliemi said.