Rep. Ronny Jackson says nephew grazed with bullet at Trump rally

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said Saturday that his nephew had been grazed with a bullet while attending former President Trump’s rally.

“My nephew was at the event tonight,” Jackson told Fox News’s Sean Hannity, explaining he was in the “friends and family pen.”

“They heard the shots, and everybody dropped to the ground,” Jackson explained. “And I don’t know if you guys have the picture or not, but he was grazed in the neck. A bullet crossed his neck, cut his neck, and he was bleeding.”

The Texas Republican, also a former White House physician, said that the pen was situated to the right of the former president and “in the line of fire.” Jackson explained that his sister-in-law had encouraged his nephew to go to the triage tent after the incident.

Trump was quickly escorted from his campaign rally in Butler, Pa., earlier on Saturday after the shooting. The U.S. Secret Service said that the one attendee died from the incident, while another two were critically injured.

The shooter was “neutralized,” the agency said. The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee said that the former president is “doing well” and looked forward to traveling to Milwaukee next week for the Republican National Convention.

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