Law enforcement officials identified a Marine Corps veteran as one of the attendees shot and injured at the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend, according to a statement from the state police and service records.
David Dutch, 57, was one of three rallygoers shot Saturday when a gunman, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired rounds at the former president during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania. Dutch’s sister told Military.com on Monday that the Marine veteran will have a second surgery following the shooting.
Dutch, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, is a Marine Corps veteran who served during the Gulf War, according to his service record, which was provided to Military.com by the service Monday.
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He is a member of the Marine Corps League, or MCL District 8, according to a social media post from the organization Sunday.
“I am sure everyone has seen the news and are appalled at how divided we have become. Well, it has finally hit home to the League. It is with great sadness that I report that one of the civilians shot at the rally was one of our own,” Matt Popovich, the vice commandant, said in a now-edited post from Sunday.
Popovich said in the post that Dutch was “in critical condition, shot in the liver and chest” and “in an induced coma.”
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