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The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the “subject involved” in the shooting of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday in Pennsylvania.
Crooks killed one person who attended the rally and critically wounded two others in addition to Trump, according to law enforcement agencies.
The 20-year-old suspect was a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, according to a statement released by the FBI early Sunday morning. The venue that hosted Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania was roughly a one-hour drive from Crook’s residence in Bethel Park.
Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said Secret Service agents shot and killed Crooks after he allegedly fired at Trump from an elevated position outside the rally, where the former president was speaking onstage.
Law enforcement officials did not immediately release additional information about Crooks and said they were still searching for a motive. Crooks was registered as a Republican but he once donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic-aligned voter turnout organization, according to publicly available records.
The Bethel Park School District confirmed in a statement that Crooks graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School. Crooks received a $500 prize from the school for academic achievement in math and science, according to a list of students honored for academic or athletic achievement published in the Tribune-Review, a local media outlet.
