The FBI has shared new details about the investigation into the shooting, which ended with the assailant being shot and killed by Secret Service agents.
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray was revealed to the House Judiciary Committee. What was that What I’m looking for Thomas Matthew Crooks on Google a week before committing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump .
this episode It happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, at a Republican rally. to support the former president’s presidential campaign.
The attack on July 13 ended with two injured and two dead .
One of the latter was the 20-year-old who was shot dead by Secret Service agents after pulling the trigger with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
For its part, Trump was injured in the right ear .
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What Thomas Matthew Crooks Was Looking For Before Donald Trump’s Assassination Attempt
According to Wray, The crooks asked on July 6: “How far was Oswald from Kennedy? .
With this question he raised Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Investigators suspect Crooks’ Internet search is a first indication that he began to contemplate murder .
The FBI authority clarified that, presumably, He registered the same day to attend the rally in Butler where a speech by Trump was scheduled.
“This is research that is obviously significant in terms of his mental state.” said Wray.
He also added that at that time, The scammers “focused a lot on former President Trump and this rally” .
Although the police investigation is still ongoing, Wray shared more details about the case .
He said that the day after searching on Google, On July 7, he made one of his three visits to the rally site. .
In the first one, he spent about 20 minutes, while then returned twice on the day of filming, July 13 .
The scammers went there in the morning for about 70 minutes and later returned to fly a drone for about 11 minutes, he said.
“It appears that around 3:50 p.m., 4:00 p.m., in this window, on the day of the shooting, The shooter was flying the drone around the area (…) Not above the scene, but about 200 meters away “More or less, far from it,” Wray said in statements saved by the New York Times .
Although the FBI was able to reconstruct the drone’s flight path, They were unable to recover any video or images captured by the device. .
Wray described Crooks as “a pretty keen shooting enthusiast” and suggested: “We believe, based on what we have seen, that his father, after purchasing the gun, legally sold it to his son.” .
The rifle was acquired by his father in 2013. According to the FBI director, he then sold it to his son. in October 2023 .
Until, The FBI has not determined what Crooks’ motivations were for carrying out the shooting. .
The experts They continue to examine their electronic devices looking for more clues and evidence about his mental health and past movements.
He explained that Crooks used encrypted messaging apps and that even though the explosives found in his car were “rudimentary,” they could be detonated remotely.
According to Wray, the FBI conducted more than 400 interviews and Dozens of agents are taking part in the investigation .
“The attempted assassination of the former president was an attack on our democracy ” he stressed.
Source: Latercera
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