Posted on 07/20/2024 12:51:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BETHEL PARK, Pa. — For Thomas Crooks, the suburban Pittsburgh nursing home where he served meals and washed dishes for $16 an hour was another solitary corner of a nearly invisible life. He was polite but distant, a former co-worker said, ate lunch alone in the break room and rarely spoke with anyone.
But as western Pennsylvania geared up last week for the boisterous spectacle of hosting a rally for former President Donald Trump, Crooks approached his bosses with a request, law enforcement officials said: He wanted to take Saturday off.
He told them he had something important to do.
It was one of the few hints to emerge so far that the 20-year-old engineering sciences graduate was planning to become a political assassin. A week after Crooks opened fire at the rally and was killed by the Secret Service, his ideology and motives remain a vexing question for investigators and the people who crossed paths with him.
In dozens of interviews, former classmates, teachers and neighbors said they still could not square their memories of Crooks — an awkward, intelligent teenager who liked to tinker with computers and spent his weekends playing video games — with the image of the stringy-haired gunman at the rally, armed with his father’s AR-15-style rifle as he clambered onto a rooftop and took aim at the former president.
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He was such a good boy.
Till he fell for the false recruitment tactics of FedZilla.
Ring...ring...”Hello”
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep...”
The NYT clearly in possession of narrative guidance
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-gunman-identified/
[The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Monday that Crooks had been admitted for the fall semester to study mechanical engineering, but according to a statement from the school, he informed the university in March he had decided not to attend.]
Now confirmed.
Have the bullets used been recovered and studied? Wouldn’t that indicate if there was more than one shooter as some have theorized?
People with their stupid impressions of the killer not being such a bad guy.
True story. When my wife and I were among the dozens of people at a small Florida beach a white gunman shot at people and held off deputies by threatening us all with a handgun. 1998.
I had my wife slide under a car and two younger guys and I plotted if he came to the left we would divide up roles to tackle him. Strangely, I wasn’t afraid. Maybe distancing by my brain. My wife said “What good is it going to be to me if you’re killed.” I said “I don’t intend to get killed.”
The gunman went the other way, grabbed a man in his 60s as his wife screamed repeatedly in fear and walked out slowly to the parking lot with officers standing down. He made the man drive him away. One deputy about five feet away said “That’s our mistake. We shouldn’t let him leave with the hostage.”
Later he was caught while holding a couple in a house. His record was using that same gun to shoot an older woman in the forehead. She had been kind enough to hire him for odd jobs. He and his accomplice thought she must have a lot of money for owning a business so they killed her at home. Didn’t think of the fact she kept her money in a bank and only had a few dollars at home.
Accomplice said “I seen him aim at her and he was smiling. He always breathed through his teeth and laughed like that. He shot her right in the head.”
The ending. I was at the Sarasota opera house that night and two Elizabeth Warren type Karens were just behind me. “I think the cops had the wrong idea about him. The two people he held at the house said he was nice to them the whole time. He didn’t do anything to them.”
Never trust a Dem.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/10/17/standoff-ends-peacefully/
If he was Black this would include a picture of him in his confirmation gown.
Yes but everybody loves a multi-shooter conspiracy. That would spoil their fun.
They don’t have internet where he knew he was going
So Crooks was just too smart for his own darn good.
You’re not allowed to see that evidence
Great question!
Was he groomed on discord? Some gamer site like the Uvalde murderer? I wonder who paid for all his nice toys? Gotta hand it to our Government…they’re good at grooming kids.
This, IMO, is a good interview with a knowledgeable SS agent.
Mainly points out the incompetence of SS as well as role of all LE and agencies.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=secret+service%3A+counter
Government mandated DEI is destroying our country and the people in it.
FREEDOM not DEI is what Makes and Will Make America Great Again
.. from government public school student?
This is a young man who's going to show everybody he's significant....at all cost as he's got nothing to loose in his mind....just as he wrote on the game site....”July 13th my ‘Premiere’ ..watch it unfold.”
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