BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks’ father was spotted in public on Monday for the first time since the 20-year-old gunman opened fire at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a local business employee and a neighbor who identified a picture of him.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
Snipers killed Crooks after the Bethel Park resident nicked Trump’s ear, killed bystander Corey Comperatore and injured two others at the July 13 rally, David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Investigators have spent the last week visiting Crooks’ family home in their suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood.
The man locals identified as the father and a masked woman he was with declined to answer questions when approached by Fox News Digital.
Two investigators, who appeared to be federal agents, enter Trump shooter Thomas Crooks’ home. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
Investigators are trying to piece together how Crooks was able to evade security around the site of Trump’s rally on July 13 at the Butler Farm Show property. He climbed onto the roof of an AGR manufacturing building about 150 yards from Trump’s podium and fired off several shots before snipers killed him.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
Undated file photo of Thomas Matthew Crooks in a yearbook photo. Crooks is alleged to be the shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Satruday, July 13, 2024. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
Crooks was spotted with a rangefinder before the shooting, and investigators are looking into how he was able to avoid law enforcement and climb onto the roof with his father’s rifle.
Lawmakers visited the shooting site on Monday as Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before Congress about the security failures for the rally.
A motive for the shooting remains unclear. Crooks was a member of a local gun club, and he bought ammunition before the attack.
FBI agents canvas Thomas Matthew Crooks’ neighborhood in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania on Monday, July 15, 2024. Investigators are speaking with neighbors about Crooks, who was killed on Saturday after attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital )
A former classmate of Crooks told Fox News Digital the killer had confronted him years earlier about his support for Trump and expressed a “smug” dislike for politicians.
Crooks’ online searches before the shooting included dates and times of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, photos of Trump and President Biden, and major depressive disorder.>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
