Trump rally shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was killed, after former U.S. president was shot in the ear
The FBI has named Bethel Park, Pennsylvania resident Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as a suspect in the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump on Saturday during a campaign event.
Shortly after the man reportedly fired bullets toward a stage where Trump was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service shot and killed him.
One rally participant died. And two more bystanders suffered serious injuries in the incident, according to the FBI. Which claimed it was investigating the act’s motivation. Trump sustained an ear shot.
According to state voting records, Crooks was a Republican voter. He would have been eligible to vote in a presidential election for the first time in the next election on November 5.
Crooks resided in Butler, roughly an hour’s drive from the shooting scene. For “special security concerns,” the Federal Aviation Administration stated on Sunday that it has blocked the airspace around Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
According to a 2021 Federal Election Commission filing, Crooks donated $15 to ActBlue, a political action organization that supports Democratic and left-leaning candidates, when he was just 17 years old. The Progressive Turnout Project, a nationwide organization that mobilizes Democrats to vote, was the designated recipient of the contribution. An inquiry for comment from Reuters not answered immediately by the organizations.
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Matthew Crooks, 53, the father of Crooks, told CNN that he was investigating what had happened. And that he would not discuss his son with anybody until he had spoken with police enforcement.
Thomas Crooks, as reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, received his diploma from Bethel Park High School in 2022. The newspaper said that he was given a $500 “star award” by the National Math and Science Initiative.
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