‘There was a lot of blood’: Doctor at Trump rally tried to save man shot in the head

“I heard gunshots. At first I thought they were firecrackers, but then someone started shouting, ‘He’s been hit, he’s been hit!'” Jim Sweetland, an emergency room doctor, was at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania when the attack occurred, leaving two dead and two seriously injured.

Sweetland said CBS News what it was like to help a member of the public who ended up injured in the attack, classified by the FBI as an “assassination attempt on Trump.” Photos of the doctor with his T-shirt covered in blood were posted on social media.

Realizing there was a victim and that emergency services were with Donald Trump, the doctor tried to help the man in the crowd who was eventually shot. “I went to where the victim was. I told him I was an EMT and I could help,” he explained.

The victim, who was in his 30s, was shot in the head and trapped between the seats, leaving “a lot of blood and brain matter” around him, the doctor said.

“He wasn’t breathing and had no pulse. He was in cardiopulmonary arrest. With the help of three other people, I was able to get him off and put him on a bench to perform resuscitation,” he said.

Two Pennsylvania State Police officers later approached the victim, picked him up and transported him, presumably to an ambulance, Sweetland said. The victim was eventually pronounced dead.

The attack, which occurred just days before Donald Trump became the official Republican presidential nominee, left two dead, including the shooter, and two seriously injured. Trump was hit in the ear, but is healthy.