An emergency room physician in the audience for Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally rushed to the aid of a badly injured rallygoer after a sniper targeting the former president rained bullets on the unsuspecting crowd.

“I heard the shots, I thought it was firecrackers to begin with. Somebody over there was screaming ‘he’s been shot, he’s been shot,'” the man, wearing a Make America Great Again baseball cap and a white “USA” shirt soaked with blood told a CBS News reporter outside the rally grounds.

The doctor said he walked over to the injured man and saw him “jammed” between the rally bleachers, bleeding badly from a headshot with visible “brain matter,” he grimly recalled.

Everything we know about the Trump assassination attempt

• 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was identified as the shooter who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
• Crooks was shot dead by Secret Service agents.
• The gunman grazed Trump’s ear, killed a 50-year-old retired fire chief, and injured two other rally-goers.
• Investigators detailed Crooks’ search history to lawmakers, revealing that he looked for the dates of Trump’s appearances and the Democratic National Convention.
• Crooks’ search history also revealed a broad interest in high-profile people and celebrities, regardless of their political affiliation, FBI officials reportedly said.
• Trump exclusively recounted surviving the “surreal” assassination attempt with The Post at the rally, remarking, “I’m supposed to be dead.”
• High-profile politicians, including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, addressed the nation about the shooting, calling it “a heinous, horrible and cowardly act.”

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He said with the help of other rallygoers he was able to get the man onto a flat surface and administer CPR.

It was not immediately known whether the gravely wounded audience member was the man authorities said was killed at the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pa. in addition to the shooter.