The mood inside the Lower Burrell American Legion post changed in a heartbeat Sunday morning.
That’s when word reached them that one of their own, Marine veteran David Dutch, 57, had been seriously injured at the Trump rally Saturday in Butler County, where the former president and Republican nominee survived an assassination attempt that left one spectator dead and two injured.
“It went from a happy place to a somber place,” Roger Milliron Jr. of Lower Burrell said Monday afternoon at the Post 868 bar.
“Everybody stopped talking. It went quiet. Everybody started praying.”
Dutch serves as commandant of the Westmoreland Detachment 1416 of the Marine Corps League.
“Our immediate support continues for David and his family as he continues his recovery from this attack,” Warren Griffin, national commandant of the Marine Corps League, said in a statement Monday. “We offer solace for David and his family along with eternal thoughts and prayers for all the victims of this tragedy.”
Matt Popovich, a vice commandant for the league’s District 8, said Dutch had been shot in the liver and chest and had been put in a medically induced coma.
Milliron said he was told that Dutch was stable after undergoing a second surgery and had been taken out of the coma at Allegheny General Hospital.
State police had no update on his condition Monday.
The mood inside the Lower Burrell American Legion post changed in a heartbeat Sunday morning. That’s when word reached them that one of their own, Marine veteran David Dutch, 57, had been seriously injured at the Trump rally Saturday in Butler County, where the former president and Republican...
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