Transcript for: Details of Thomas Matthew Crooks' Attempted Assasination of Donald Trump
[Reporter] Here's what we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old suspect who attempted to assassinate former
President Donald Trump. (gun firing) After Crooks fired multiple
shots from an AR style rifle, a secret service sniper
shot and killed him. - [Attendee 1] Shooter's down. - [Attendee 2] Shooter's down. - [Reporter] In a briefing Sunday, the FBI said that limited insights from his recent communications
didn't reveal anything about Crook's motive or suggest that anyone else was involved. But some answers may lie
in Crook's cell phone, which the FBI shipped
to its lab in Virginia. Crooks lived in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about an hour's drive south of Butler, where the rally took place. - Thomas Crooks. - [Reporter] He graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022. He seemed to have little
social media presence or record of political activism. - He was quiet, but,
like, he was just bullied. Like, he was bullied so much. He'd wear hunting outfits sometimes. - [Reporter] Pennsylvania
voting records show that he was a registered Republican. And on the day of Joe
Biden's inauguration, a federal election commission record shows Crooks gave $15 to
the Democratic aligned progressive turnout project. Crooks did appear to have
an account on Discord, a messaging app. A Discord spokesman said he hadn't posted on that account in months, and that the platform
had removed his account based on its off platform behavior policy. Witness accounts placed Crooks on a roof less than 450 feet away from Trump. - We noticed the guy
crawling arm, you know, bear crawling up the roof
of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us. - [Reporter] Crook's father,
who the gun had belonged to, assumed his son had gone to a gun range, but became concerned when
he couldn't reach him, according to people familiar
with the investigation. He called police after
news of the shooting. The FBI also said that Crooks hadn't been on the agency's radar as a possible threat before the shooting, and that there were no signs
of mental health issues.