Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Doug Mills recounts how his decades-long career drove him to keep shooting after a gunman opened fire during Trump’s rally.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Doug Mills had his finger on the shutter when a during former President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday.
Mills, who was covering the rally for the New York Times, initially thought the noise came from a vehicle, but he quickly realized it was something much more serious.
«When I saw him kind of grimace and look to his right and then grab his ear, and looked at it, I thought, and then he went down. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s been shot'», said Mills.
Mills has covered presidents since 1983 but never envisioned he would be witnessing an assassination attempt.
According to law enforcement officials, the shooter, identified as 20-year-old , of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, shot into the rally the former president was holding and fired six to eight rounds with an AR-style weapon. A Secret Service sniper quickly shot and killed him. Armed agents immediately whisked Trump off the stage, blood running down the side of his face.
One audience member, Pennsylvania firefighter , was killed in the shooting, and two other men are in critical condition.
