Thomas Matthew Crooks apparently teased an attack online days before he climbed onto a roof and opened fire at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, killing one and injuring others, including former President Donald Trump, Fox News has learned. Secret Service and FBI officials told U.S. senators during an all-members briefing on Wednesday, July 17, that Crooks,...
The Steam account previously reported to have belonged to would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was not owned by him, according to a federal law enforcement source. Original reports from a source inside an FBI briefing to lawmakers suggested the 20-year-old Crooks wrote in a post earlier this month, “July 13 will be my premier, watch...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source. It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was...
BUTLER, Pa. — The FBI conducted 200 interviews and combed through 14,000 images but said they still don’t have a clear motive behind the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a campaign rally Saturday in western Pennsylvania. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who’s on the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News Digital that he thinks...
The sister of the man who opened fire on former President Trump on Saturday is a “hardworking” woman with two jobs, according to a report. A neighbor of Katie Crooks said she moved out of her family home three years ago into an apartment – and that her now notorious brother helped her transfer her...
BETHAL PARK, Pa. – A veteran law enforcement officer shared what the FBI is likely asking family, friends and acquaintances of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks in its mission to determine a motive. Ashton Packe, a retired 23-year-veteran Nevada law enforcement officer who also served in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, told Fox...
The widow of the volunteer firefighter who was shot and killed over the weekend at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania says the former president called her and was “very kind,” a report says. Helen Comperatore wrote on Facebook that Trump phoned her on Tuesday, three days after her husband Corey was struck with gunfire while...
Speaking for the first time publicly since the assassination attempt of former President Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the violence during a speech Wednesday in Michigan. “As we all know, it was a heinous, horrible, cowardly act,” Harris said during a moderated campaign event in Kalamazoo. “Thankfully, he...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks likely scouted the Butler Farm rally site and planned his attack extensively before attacking a Trump rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, Saturday in a failed attempt to kill the former president, according to a retired Secret Service agent and security expert. “It’s clear now the gunman did an...
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has opened an investigation into the Secret Service’s handling of security for former President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend. In a brief notice posted to the inspector general’s website, the agency said the objective of the probe is to “Evaluate the United States Secret Service’s (Secret...
