Donald Trump News live breaking update : The investigating agency has so far released a picture of the young attacker. In the picture, the 20-year-old attacker is seen wearing glasses and smiling at the camera.
On Sunday, a few hours after former US President Donald Trump was shot in the ear at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the whole country was shaken. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation has also identified the killer as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
The FBI itself has said in a statement that the FBI has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the person involved in the attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump in Chey Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
Crooks was killed by Secret Service snipers when he fired several bullets at the former US President from a nearby rooftop at the rally, as claimed by witnesses. That he had tried to warn security officials about a man who was roaming from a nearby rooftop and lying on his stomach with a gun pointed at him.
Described as a quiet student and a loner, Crooks-Nechi was also released from Bethel Park High School in 2022 and received a $509 STAR Award from the National Math and Science Initiative.
His friends have described him as socially reserved and do not recall him ever discussing politics or Trump. But he has been mentioned as often being bullied at school, with one student telling local US media that he was quiet but was simply bullied.
Donald Trump News : The boy who attacked Trump was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement on Sunday that the suspect involved in the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump has also been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks.
According to the FBI, 20-year-old Crooks is the person involved in the assassination attempt on the former President at a Republican rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Matthew Crooks was a resident of the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. And according to state voter records, he was a registered Republican. Crooks has previously made a small contribution to a Democratic ties group.
Trump gunman was an outcast who was not made to the school’s rifle team and was a terrible shooter
Thomas Matthew Crooks, described by classmates as a loner who regularly wore hunting gear to school and was bullied nearly every day, lived in a suburban town in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Matthew Crooks has been named as the gunman in the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a campaign rally this Saturday.
Crooks, described by classmates as a loner who regularly wore hunting gear to school and lived in a suburban town an hour from the scene of his own assassination attempt.
Minute-by-minute timeline of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks
Donald Trump News live breaking update : Former US President Donald Trump narrowly escaped a shooter’s firing at his election rally in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump suffered a minor injury in his right ear and when he was surrounded by US Secret Service officials and taken off the stage, he was seen holding his own blood-soaked ear.
The former Republican national was only on the sixth minute of his speech at the rally when there was chaos and shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto the roof and fired several shots.
While he has managed to escape the Donald Trump assassination attempt and is participating in the rally. One former fire chief has also died. And two others are seriously injured. The shooter was found within a few minutes and the Secret Service killed him.
Hundreds of photos from the event, including one showing a bullet flying while Trump was on stage, established a timeline of events that took place at the Pennsylvania rally that Saturday.
Donald Trump News Who is this 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Thomas Matthew Crooks, a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was a registered Republican and is eligible to cast his first presidential vote in the presidential elections to be held on November 5 this year.
According to the report of news agency Reuters, he has been a graduate from Bethel Park High School in 2022 with a reputation as a promising and quiet classmate. And his high school counselor has described him as a respectable person. Who mostly stays to himself. And it has been said that he has never considered Crooks to be political.
The FBI has said that there is no threatening language in his social media profile nor can they find any history of mental health problems. And the officers do not know his political inclinations because his social media profile lacked any posts promoting violence or similar activities.
Donald Trump News live breaking update : Furthermore, Crooks had tried out for the Pro Football team during his high school days and was dropped because he was a hard shooter, and the current team captain himself told the news agency. One of his classmates also said in an interview that Crooks was interested in building computers and playing games.