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Thomas Matthew Crooks researched school shooter Ethan Crumbley, his family before attack: officials
https://abc7.com ^ | 7/20/2024 | ByZachary Cohen, Evan Perez and Holmes Lybrand,

Posted on 07/20/2024 8:38:50 AM PDT by bitt

The suspect in the Trump rally shooting searched online for information on the arrest of a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted in a 2021 high school shooting. He visited websites for how to build explosives. And in the minutes before he fired shots in an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, he screenshotted a picture from a livestream of the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.

A week before the shooting, Thomas Matthew Crooks searched online for the date of the Democratic National Convention and where Trump planned to speak, as well as other searches for Trump and President Joe Biden.

These details were among those shared by FBI and US Secret Service officials in a Wednesday briefing with lawmakers and by additional people familiar with the investigation. The previously unreported readout documents the scope of the investigation, including an expanded timeline of the would-be assassin's actions leading to up his assault and law enforcement's failure to prevent it.

Investigators remain puzzled about possible motives for Saturday's attempted assassination of the former president, finding little to point to political or ideological intentions for the attack.

But the would-be assassin's recent trail on the internet has provided investigators with a detailed picture of his possible mindset before the attack. FBI behavioral experts are building a profile of Crooks based on the findings, the FBI told lawmakers.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1frpottymouth; bs; crooks; ethancrumbley; fakenews; hisfamily; loser; oxfordschool; thomasmatthewcrooks
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To: OldHarbor

Also, note that none of the supposed independent “alternative media” are doing any investigating on this either.


21 posted on 07/20/2024 9:24:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Delta 21

What did he think would happen as a result of killing Trump?
There’s certainly no guarantee that the assassination would help Biden or anyone else to become president. Most likely, he was trying to make a name for himself or was sadly disillusioned and brainwashed into believing that Trump is “a threat to democracy.”


22 posted on 07/20/2024 9:36:56 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: bitt
"FBI behavioral experts are building a profile of Crooks based on the findings, the FBI told lawmakers."

I think this could be translated as, "Give us a day or two so we can make something up."

23 posted on 07/20/2024 9:38:34 AM PDT by Flint
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To: bitt

*a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted*

the parents were prosecuted because the MI kid was a minor, making the parents responsible. The assassin wasn’t a minor so his parents likely won’t be prosecuted unless there is some sort of contributory reason.


24 posted on 07/20/2024 9:40:33 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: eartick

Anyone with half a brain knows the SS was involved.


25 posted on 07/20/2024 9:43:20 AM PDT by abbastanza (he)
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To: 9YearLurker

We are in a very FUBAR state at the moment. I believe that there is an active coup underway in our government right now. The plan got derailed by that SOB Trump!


26 posted on 07/20/2024 9:46:16 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Sacajaweau

They would have been the last people I would have messaged if I was about to shoot the President. I don’t think they would have been proud.


27 posted on 07/20/2024 9:47:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: smokingfrog

I find it hard to believe a sub 25y.o. kid gives a hoot about Trump or Biden.


28 posted on 07/20/2024 9:48:36 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: bitt

Oh so now they want to make it out like he had no political leanings, “See he hated both sides” argument..uh NO, he hated Republicans period


29 posted on 07/20/2024 9:49:49 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jeffc

This kid has an engineering background. That makes him a numbers guy. He might have used Library monitors. Betting he tossed a lot of stuff before going to the rally. I’d rip the kid’s room and house to shreds.


30 posted on 07/20/2024 9:51:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Vermont Lt

The object wasn’t to make them proud. The object was revenge. Have a feeling the parents never responded to his cries for help and made him a loner. His sister moved out of the family home 3 years earlier.


31 posted on 07/20/2024 9:59:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: conservative98
There is a lot of nonsense going out there, certainly on the MSM side but also on the alt media end. The American political assassins in the 1963-81 period were not Gen Z members but were out of the Baby Boomer (Bremer, Fromme, Hinckley) or the Silent (Oswald, Sirhan, Ray, Sara Jane Moore) generations. Were all of them, as well as Crooks and possibly the mass killing shooters, part of some mind control program?That may be an assumption but one that is not backed up by hard evidence. In particular, you must wonder about the mass killers. With respect to these killers, the argument is that they are part of a plot to promote gun control. While the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations and the Texas Tower killings did service to promote gun control, the later ones had no such effect. In fact, Constitutional carry is now legal in a majority of states.
32 posted on 07/20/2024 10:07:24 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: smokingfrog

Most likely, he was trying to make a name for himself or was sadly disillusioned and brainwashed into believing that Trump is “a threat to democracy.”

Nope not buying. If that were the case an outfit called the Secret Service would have spotted him and neutralized him/moved Trump out. Period. He got of a kill shot then he was dead. It was a stupid clumsy obvious hit which involved at the very least the secret service.


33 posted on 07/20/2024 10:11:25 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Wallace T.

Crumbley Crooks would be a good description of the Democratic Party.


34 posted on 07/20/2024 10:11:38 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: Delta 21

He went to a Trump rally with weapons and shot at President Trump to be sure, with the intention of killing him. Those are facts.

What is not proven is that he intended to only shoot President Trump, or if he intended to continue to commit mass murder afterward. The counter-sniper took him out so we’ll never know, fortunately.

I’m waiting to see a detailed forensic analysis of every shot that was fired, by him and by the counter-snipers, and the trajectory of each shot because that will tell us something about his intent. If he continued to fire at Trump after he ducked down, that’s one thing, but if he aimed into the crowd, that’s something else.

Motive is difficult to prove from circumstantial evidence, and he didn’t leave much to show what was going on in his head (not just regarding the shooting but the consistent reports are that he was a loner with few friends, and most kept his ideas to himself.


35 posted on 07/20/2024 10:13:56 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

I think the shot that pierced Trump’s ear was the 1st shot fired, in a slow burst of 3 or 4. Then 2 more bursts until he was neutralized. He shot to the left of Trump and hit the Fire Chief. Then a last burst that may have injured one at the far side. He shot into the crowd. Not with accuracy just acting like a StormTrooper.


36 posted on 07/20/2024 10:43:17 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: bitt

I’m waiting for a 20 year old communist, who once gave $20 to the DNC, to take a shot at FJB while wearing a MAGA hat; after which the FBI will give us the definitive motive.


37 posted on 07/20/2024 10:46:55 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald )
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To: bitt

Notice they have found information about him that explains his propensity for violence but absolutely nothing that explains his motivation. And are we supposed to believe he is a 20 year old male with absolutely no presence on social media. It’s almost as though it’s all contrived.


38 posted on 07/20/2024 11:02:55 AM PDT by Spok
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To: 9YearLurker

we’ve got no info on the Crooks parents period!


39 posted on 07/20/2024 11:45:53 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: 9YearLurker

even the garbage media appears to have had a message of “it didn’t happen” thrown at them


40 posted on 07/20/2024 11:50:03 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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