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The photographer who took a “one in a million” picture of a bullet whizzing by Donald Trump’s head was using a camera that shoots 30 frames per second when gunfire broke out at the ex-president’s Pennsylvania rally.
New York Times photojournalist Doug Mills said Monday he didn’t realize he captured the historic photo during the attempted assassination of Trump until after an editor spotted the apparent path of a bullet that was fired by sniper Matthew Thomas Crooks from a nearby roof Saturday evening.
Trump was grazed in the right ear and three others were also hit by gunfire, including a 50-year-old volunteer firefighter who was killed.
Crooks was shot dead by law enforcement.
Doug Mills, a New York Times photographer, appeared to capture an image of a bullet streaking past Donald Trump’s head, a former FBI agent said. He took the photo while documenting the rally that turned into an attempt on a former president’s life. https://t.co/nhtORaXDZj pic.twitter.com/32UI1GDcoO
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“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,” Mills recalled for CBS News. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s been shot.’” …
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