{"id":294439,"date":"2026-09-26T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294439\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:16:30","slug":"james-copenhaver-man-shot-during-2024-trump-campaign-rally-in-butler-pennsylvania-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294439\/","title":{"rendered":"James Copenhaver, man shot during 2024 Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Two other attendees were also shot at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, has died<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790421390_592_origin-ap.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 25, 2026 9:58AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PITTSBURGH &#8212; James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died, his lawyer said Thursday. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump&#8217;s right ear with one bullet. Copenhaver was struck in the arm and in the abdomen, wounds that left him with lingering injuries and walking with a cane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Two other attendees were also shot &#8211; David Dutch, who survived, and Corey Comperatore, who shielded his family from gunfire before he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two other attendees were also shot at the rally. James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[121536,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-294439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-121536","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}