Butler County has released audio from the 911 calls made in the moments after former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. The county released the audio in response to a lawsuit from NBC News, Scripps News, and The Intercept.
The first call came in at 6:12 p.m.
“Gunshots at the Trump rally,” a woman tells the dispatcher. “Gunshots-“
“Yep,” the dispatcher said, interrupting the caller. “The police are on the way there.”
“Better get over here quick!” the woman exclaimed.
Over the next 15 minutes, more than a dozen people called 911. Most of the calls were from people reporting that shots were fired, as the dispatchers calmly responded that the police were on their way.
“They just tried to kill President Trump,” one person said.
“We have an emergency. We’re at the Trump rally,” another caller said.
In one call, a woman was trying to locate her husband, who was taken away by paramedics after getting shot.
Another caller wasn’t at the rally but called 911 after learning about it from his mother, who was in attendance.
“My mother called me, I think there’s a Trump rally going on,” the caller said. “She called me saying there’s an active shooter on the grounds there. She called me in a panic.”
None of the calls released by the county mention the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents on the rooftop where he opened fire on Trump.
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