What we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, suspect in Trump assassination attempt
take a look at what happened Secret Service agents swarmed former president Donald Trump and rushed him off stage after a gunman fired shots during his rally in Butler Pennsylvania we had what we’re calling an assassination attempt against our former president Donald Trump it’s still an active crime scene Trump said he was shot by a bullet that pierced the upper part of his right ear on his truth social media platform he wrote quote I knew immediately that something was wrong long and then I heard a whizzing sound shots and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin a New York Times photographer captured this image of what appears to show a Bullet racing by the former president’s head the FBI identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of bethl Park Pennsylvania they say he fired shots from outside the secure cordoned area of the rally a top and elevated structure he starts shooting bow bow bow bow about four to five shots rang out law enforcement converged on Crook’s family’s Suburban Pittsburgh home overnight they asked us to leave our house they told us it was a state of emergency no warning they just knocked on the door in the middle of the night officials say the gunman fired 6 to8 rounds from an AR15 assault rifle before he was shot and killed by a member of the secret service counter assault team the FBI called it quote surprising that he was able to fire at the stage before he was killed we do not currently have an identified motive Although our investigators are working tirelessly to attempt to identify what that motive was last night’s rally in Pennsylvania was former president Trump’s last before the Republican National Convention gets underway here in Milwaukee right now plans are underway to expand the security perimeter around this venue President Biden spoke with Trump Saturday evening he condemned the attack there’s no place in America for this kind of violence it’s sick it’s sick Trump was treated at a local hospital he returned to his Golf Club in New Jersey early this morning
Man who opened fire at Trump rally was Thomas Matthew Crooks of Pennsylvania, officials say