‘Careful Planning’: Trump Rally Gunman Researched Attempted Assassination Of Foreign Leader, FBI Says
The gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump had researched the attempted killing of the Slovakian prime in May, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials said on a call to reporters on…
The gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump had researched the attempted killing of the Slovakian prime in May, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials said on a call to reporters on Monday, The Washington Post reported.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter at Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, had researched mass shootings and the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to a call with the FBI Monday, The Washington Post reported. The details, which FBI officials said demonstrated the shooter’s “careful planning” of the attack, were revealed as agents continue to pore through data from his cellphones, laptop, and other devices.
As of the call Monday, agents have conducted more than 450 interviews, with no sources, including Crooks’s own parents, seeming to have any knowledge of the attack before it occurred, according to the Washington Post.
“We believe the suspect made significant efforts to conceal his activities,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, told The Washington Post.
As a result, Crooks’s motive for the shooting remains unclear, according to The Washington Post.