Thomas Matthew Crooks: The ‘quiet’ boy with a ‘passion for history’ who tried to assassinate Donald Trump

The small suburb of Pittsburgh, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, is shocked. The FBI has named a young local man, Thomas Matthew Crooks, as the person who shot Donald Trump during a campaign rally that shocked the nation. Investigators believe Crooks, armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, opened fire on the former president while he was speaking to a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one person in the audience and injuring two others. The 20-year-old kitchen worker was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, officials said. In his hometown, however, neighbors are in a state of shock, apparently unable to comprehend how a quiet young man is now accused of attempting to assassinate the former US president. The FBI, for its part, said only that Crooks was “involved in the attempted assassination of the former president and that an investigation is underway.” Who was matthew thomas crookes crookes had no […]
Source: News Beast

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