“At this time, the information we have indicates that the shooter acted alone.”said Kevin Rojek, FBI agent in Pennsylvania, where the attempted murder occurred on Saturday.
Robert Wells, Deputy Director of the Anti-Terrorism Division of the FBI, informed the press that the incident is being investigated as “possible terrorist act.” “We are investigating this as an attempted murder, but we are also considering it a possible act of domestic terrorism,” he told reporters.
Regarding the weapon used in the attempted assassination of Trump, Rojek said it is a legally purchased “AR 556 rifle”The semi-automatic weapon is believed to have been purchased by the shooter’s father, but it is not known how the teen gained access to it or whether he obtained it without his father’s knowledge, the FBI said.
Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter who tried to assassinate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania?
Behind the attack on Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvaniathe FBI was able to identify the shooter who carried out the assassination attempt. United States Security Service confirmed that his name was Thomas Matthew Crooks and was 20 years old.
According to investigators, the young man was registered as a voter. republicanalthough it was later discovered that years earlier he had made a small donation to a Democratic-aligned group. Crooks lived in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, located almost 60 kilometers south of the rally where he shot the former president.
According to local media, he graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022. The 20-year-old attacker was eligible to vote as a Republican, according to a listing in the Pennsylvania voter database.
Donald Trump resumes campaign after US assassination attempt
Donald Trump said was heading to Milwaukee on Sundaywhere the Republicans They will formally make it their presidential candidate later this week after he survived an assassination attempt that threatens to further inflame America’s political divide.
The Democratic President Joe Biden said he had ordered a review of how a 20-year-old man carrying an AR-15 rifle got close enough to shoot Trump from a rooftop on Saturdaywho as a former president enjoys lifelong protection from the Secret Service.
Trump, 78, had just begun a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh, when the blasts rang out shots, one of which hit the right ear of the former president and stained his face with blood.
Biden and Trump urged Americans to show unity on Sunday after the attack on the Republican left the nation in suspense in the midst of the November presidential election campaign.
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