Thomas Crooks’ cellphone was pictured alongside a remote transmitter and his dead body atop the manufacturing plant from where he shot at former President Donald Trump — as it was revealed that he asked his boss for a day off work because he had “something to do.”
The gray, 12-button remote and the “newer model” phone were recovered from the 20-year-old’s body on top of the AGR International Inc. complex after a Secret Service sniper team fatally shot him during Saturday’s rally, according to photos obtained by WPXI.
The transmitter is believed to have been connected to an explosive device found inside Crooks’ car as investigators suggested that he had planned to stage a distraction during the shooting.
Crooks was spotted by law enforcement with a rangefinder and looking at the phone nearly an hour before Trump took the stage, law enforcement sources told the outlet.