Trump shooting live updates: FBI investigating the assassination attempt as domestic terrorism

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Renee White and Tim Wadzita were sitting "dead center" right behind Trump on the seventh riser at his rally yesterday when shots rang out. Wadzita said he was still in "shock of how surreal the moment was" because earlier people had been having a "blast," just "being present" and "understanding" with each other. White said they were in a "tight shot" just behind Trump. She said she was looking at the jumbotron when she heard the first shot. She followed the sound "right to Trump," then heard the next two shots and watched him go down to the ground as Secret Service agents piled on top of him. Show more She said that once she started hearing how the agents were communicating with one another, "everything else went away," and she realized "this is real." "And then when I saw them get up off the stage and I saw his shoe laying there. That’s when it hit like really hard. That’s when you felt it," she said. "That’s when you were like, 'Oh, my God, this could have ended up totally different way,' right? That’s what blew me away more than anything." White said she watched officials carry the dead body off the scene, saying, "I did see that limp leg in the in the denim jeans, and that’s something I can’t scrub from my mind in my head." Wadzita said that he didn't know whether there were one or multiple shooters and that officers kept telling rallygoers to get down and stay down. There was confusion when Trump got back up, he said, because everyone got back up, but they were told to get down again. It's not lost on Wadzita that had the shooter fired from a different angle, they could have been hit. "We would have been in the firing zone, and that’s just, like, you feel disconnected from that for a little bit," he said. Yesterday’s was White’s 32nd Trump rally, and she said that despite what transpired, she’ll be back. "You bet I will," she said. "It’s not anything different than walking across the street, you know, you could get hit by a car, right? But if you’re doing something you love and you like to do, place you want to be, something happens, it happens." But she's still in disbelief: "I can't believe somebody did this. I can't believe somebody would try to take out a president, a former president, of the United States. Whether it's Joe Biden or Trump, I don't think it's right." Both Wadzita and White ultimately hope good comes from the bad and that the assassination attempt will bring Americans together. "It’s all about the ballot. It’s all about doing your voting," White said. "Never violence, always in peace."