Jake Traylor, the son of UTSA's head football coach, reportedly used his body to shield another journalist during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
As shots rang out last Saturday during former President Donald Trump ’s campaign rally in Butler , Pennsylvania , Jake Traylor leapt to action in an effort to protect ABC correspondent Rachel Scott from incoming gunfire. Traylor, an NBC News presidential campaign reporter and the son of UTSA football coach Jeff Traylor , was in proximity to the stage when the 20-year-old suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks , fired multiple shots at Trump in a failed assassination attempt.
Those of us in the press pen, we were there obviously covering the rally.' He added: 'If you can go back to that horrific moment, we were anticipating a potential vice presidential pick announcement. So that’s where our thoughts were at. Most of the journalists and reporters in the press pen were at the very front anticipating some type of announcement. Of course, then we heard the shots. So many things happened so quickly, but also it felt like it happened so slowly, too.
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