evidence: Claims that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was staged are baseless [...] Conspiracy theories that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was staged flooded the internet almost immediately after a shooting suspect opened fire on Trump as he spoke at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. [...] The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the suspect who shot former President Donald Trump. Pennsylvania State Police said the shooter killed one person — whom the state’s governor identified as Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer fire chief and father of two — and critically injured two other people at the rally. Secret Service personnel shot Crooks dead shortly after he opened fire, the agency said. Law enforcement officials recovered an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle from a nearby building’s roof, according to The New York Times.