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Jim Copenhaver, a 76-year-old rally attendee shot during the July 2024 attempt on President Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died.

Getting into it: Copenhaver died last week at a Pittsburgh hospital, according to the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office, which said the cause of death is under investigation. His family’s lawyer said he died surrounded by loved ones but didn’t say whether his death was tied to the injuries he suffered at the rally.

Copenhaver, a veteran from Moon Township, was in the bleachers with family when 20-year-old Thomas Crooks opened fire from a nearby rooftop, hitting him in the arm and abdomen. The wounds required multiple surgeries, left him with nerve and kidney damage and numbness in his leg, and forced him to walk with a cane.

“After being wounded while protecting his family, Jim showed tremendous bravery, courageously continuing to FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, and maintaining a positive spirit despite unimaginable hardships,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling his death a “tremendous loss.”

Crooks killed former fire chief Corey Comperatore, who was shielding his family, and also wounded Marine veteran David Dutch before a Secret Service counter-sniper took him out seconds later. Trump walked away with a wound to his ear. Then-Director Kimberly Cheatle stepped down 10 days later as the shooting laid bare how badly the Secret Service had botched rally security.

In June, Copenhaver, his wife Marianne and Dutch sued the federal government, saying the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security “utterly failed” to secure the rally, down to leaving the rooftop Crooks fired from unguarded, and that lawsuit is still pending.

This all comes as questions about the Butler investigation keep resurfacing, with Tucker Carlson claiming that Trump shut down the probe into Crooks and that the FBI is withholding information about his online activity and who he was talking to, while federal investigators maintain Crooks acted alone.

“I can’t think of a non-sinister reason for Trump to shut down an investigation into his own attempted murder,” Carlson said in an interview with Stephen A. Smith on SiriusXM’s Straight Shooter.

Carlson said he pushed FBI officials to let him see the evidence and that “the Trump people” yelled at him and called him names instead, claiming the bureau has material on who Crooks talked to on a burner phone, who he communicated with online, and who he trained with at a shooting range that it has never released.

He also said he got access to Crooks’ Google Drive and found YouTube comments from 2019 and 2020 full of violent rhetoric, some of it calling for assassinations, disputing the FBI’s earlier claim that Crooks “had no online footprint,” and accused FBI Director Kash Patel, Deputy Director Dan Bongino and former Director Christopher Wray of keeping what they know about Crooks and the security breakdowns under wraps.