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Six members of the Secret Service were suspended for failures in relation to the assassination attempt targeting President Donald Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally last year, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn confirmed to CBS News on Thursday (July 10).
The six agents will be suspended for a range of 10 to 42 days and won't be on paid leave and placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility upon returning to work.
“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn said. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”
Trump's right ear was grazed during the shooting and he was seen yelling "fight" to his supporters while being evacuated from the rally by Secret Service members. One spectator, identified as Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed during the incident while two others, David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, and James Copenhaver, 74, were initially critically wounded but later upgraded to stable condition.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was killed by Secret Service agents immediately after opening fire. Bodycam video footage confirmed that Secret Service agents identified Crooks as a suspicious person before the assassination attempt but "lost sight of him."
Trump officially accepted the Republican presidential nomination during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, days after the assassination attempt and went on to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.