Law enforcement block a avenue in Bethel Park, Pa., that they are saying was a residence of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected shooter of former President Donald Trump, on Sunday.
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The FBI has recognized Thomas Matthew Crooks as the man who allegedly shot at President Donald Trump and killed one particular person at a Butler, Pa., political rally Saturday night.
Trump says {that a} bullet pierced the higher a part of his proper ear. Two different individuals had been additionally injured earlier than Secret Service brokers killed Crooks.
An image remains to be rising about the 20-year-old. Here’s what we know to date.
Where is Crooks from?
The Crooks household house is in Bethel Park, Pa., based on the FBI, a working-to-middle class neighborhood south of Pittsburgh.
The neighborhood, which neighbors described to an NPR reporter as “quiet,” sits about 53 miles from the taking pictures web site.
“People kind of keep to themselves. I mean, you say hi to your neighbors,” mentioned Jim Zawojski, 70, a retiree dwelling in Bethel Park. But, he added individuals aren’t particularly close-knit.
Zawojski mentioned he as soon as mistakenly obtained mail from the Crooks home, however by no means engaged with the members of the family straight at the same time as he returned the mail to their porch.
“I couldn’t even tell you what they look like,” he mentioned.
Law enforcement had the avenue the place it’s believed Crooks lived blocked off from the public on Sunday.
“I’m sure they’re devastated,” Zawojski said, thinking of the Crooks family. “I am just wondering if there were any signs of how [Crooks] was acting. Was he mentally disturbed? Was he that strong of a Biden supporter that he wanted that to happen so badly that he wanted to go and take Trump on? I couldn’t even begin to guess but I’m sure that they’re totally devastated.”
Law enforcement officers collect at the marketing campaign rally web site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Trump’s marketing campaign mentioned in an announcement that the former president was “fine” after a taking pictures at his rally in Butler.
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A potential motive is unclear
Investigators are working to place collectively what could have motivated Crooks to launch this assault.
Pennsylvania voter registration and Federal Election Commission knowledge reveals Crooks was a registered Republican, however donated $15 via ActBlue, the Democratic-allied group, in 2021.
A search on Pennsylvania’s public court docket information database indicated Crooks had no prison historical past.
