Thomas Matthew Crooks

See also: Assassination attempt on Trump

Thomas Matthew Crooks gunman at Trump Rally appearing in 2022 BlackRock video.

Thomas Matthew Crooks (2004-2024) was an American college student identified as a shooter in the Assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 while campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election.

Education and background

Crooks was a 20-year-old male from the Bethel Park, PA, a nursing-home employee, was socially awkward with no political profile, according to his classmates.

A classmate recalled being mocked by Crooks for the classmate's support of Trump in 2016:

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[T]he 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle. "I brought up the fact that I'm Hispanic and, you know, I'm for Trump. And he said, 'Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?'" Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "No. He's great. He was a great president. He called me stupid – or insinuated that I was stupid."

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The Epoch Times reported that Bethel Park High School refuted claims that Crooks had been a member of the school's shooting team or that he was the victim of bullying.

While the Deep State fails to address the high correlation between young mass murderers like Crooks' and violent video games, it did disclose that "investigators found an image of the arrest photo of Ethan Crumbley," who murdered classmates at his school, on Crooks' phone. And of course his said message on a gaming platform hinting on the fateful Saturday.

Crooks reportedly had a Gab account, from which he allegedly made 9 postings since 2021 and expressed support for Joe Biden.

"According to the New York Times, federal campaign-finance records show" a Thomas Crooks (no middle name) "donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021." Whether or not this is the same Thomas Crooks remains to be seen. Hours before the incident, the aforementioned progressive TurnoutPAC tweeted about Trump supposedly "destroying Democracy." Quote:

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It's simple people: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and another four years of him would be detrimental to our country.

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The tweet was still left even after the assassination.

The plot

Crooks starred in a Blackrock commercial filmed at Bethel Park High School, from which he graduated in 2022. BlackRock, which donated a record amount to Democrats in the 2022 Midterm elections, stands to lose "the billions of dollars it has invested in Ukraine" if President Trump wins reelection in 2024. The New York Times reported about oligarch activities over the 4th of July just days before the assassination attempt, " As more leading Democrats said privately that President Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential election, some of the party’s most prominent backers on Wall Street spent the holiday weekend debating what to do next...The group — including Larry Fink of BlackRock; Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary; Jon Gray of Blackstone; Peter Orszag of Lazard; Blair Effron of Centerview Partners; and Robert Wolf, a former UBS executive close to Barack Obama — talked to friends, colleagues and in some cases each other about whether to stick with Biden."

Crooks had packages marked "Hazardous Materials" delivered to his home where he lived with his parents.

Crooks is reported to have three offshore bank accounts, in Germany, Belgium, and New Zealand.

Crooks had conducted internet searches for mass shooter Ethan Crumbley, major political figures and political events such as that Trump rally, as well as how to build explosives.

An investigation by Heritage Foundation showed that a digital device visiting Crooks’ home multiple times has been geo-located to the vicinity of an FBI office in Washington DC in late June 2024.

The shooting

(Left) Law enforcement over the corpse of Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Right) Photo of Thomas Matthew Crooks taken by Butler law enforcement of a suspicious person and activity outside the AGR building about 50 minutes before the shooting began.

Crooks asked his boss for the day off, telling him he had 'something to do.'

The shooter arrived at the site 3 hours early. At 3pm he triggered a metal detector as he tried to gain access to the event, and was found to be carrying a rangefinder – a gun sight typically used by marksmen preparing to shoot at distance. Security officers allowed him in.

Crooks flew a drone over the site to survey the layout. The Secret Service, under Biden DEI appointee Kimberly Cheatle, flew none.

The shooter walked from his van carrying an AR-15 and wearing camouflage pants in plain sight of rallygoers. He came to a building, the American Glass Research (AGR) company, where a ladder had been pre-positioned before time.

According to CBS News, a team of police snipers was stationed in the same single-story AGR International building, and they saw him outside three times in the minutes leading up to the attack.

He climbed the ladder in full sight of rallygoers carrying his AR-15. Eyewitnesses notified the police of his presence.

The line of sight (LOS) distance from the building's rooftop was approximately 130 yards to the podium where President Trump was speaking. Why the rooftop was not secured and protected raises lots of questions as to why, and whether there was proper oversight within the Secret Service. There were no drones up to cover the perimeter and to provide surveillance and warning.

The Secret Service sniper team is said to have had him in their sights for several minutes before taking him out. The rules of engagement (ROE) prohibited the Secret Service from shooting until the gunman shot first.

A local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found the shooter, who pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired toward Trump.

Crooks may have posted an ominous message on the gaming platform Steam hinting to fellow users that that fateful Saturday would be eventful. He is said to have hid rifle in advance of the rally.

The shooter was bear-crawling up the roof of an elevated structure a few hundred meters away outside the venue. The shooter had explosive devices in his vehicle parked near the rally, showing he had an elaborated plan.

The shooter got off 5 shots, killing retired fire chief Corey Comperatore in the crowd, critically injuring 2 others, and grazing President Trump's right ear before being "neutralized" with 3 shots by Secret Service snipers, in the words of the Secret Service.

He was eliminated instantly.

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See also

• Ryan Wesley Routh
• Asif Merchant
• Charlie Kirk