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JUST IN: New Details Reveal What Shooter Did In Hours Leading Up To Attempt On Trump’s Life

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Three days have passed since the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, and investigators are still piecing together the events and searching for a possible motive. Witnesses at the rally reported seeing the gunman on the roof of an adjacent building before he opened fire, and it has since been revealed that snipers were placed inside the very building that the attacker climbed.

In the 48 hours preceding the attack, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks visited several locations in his suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood. A law enforcement official reported to CNN that on Friday, Crooks practiced shooting at a range where he held a membership. The next day, he bought a five-foot ladder from Home Depot and 50 rounds of ammunition from a gun store.

Crooks then drove his Hyundai Sonata to a rally for the 2024 Republican nominee in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he joined thousands of attendees. He had an improvised explosive device hidden in his car’s trunk, connected to a transmitter he carried. Using his newly purchased ladder, Crooks scaled a nearby building and eventually opened fire on the former president.

Investigators are now piecing together Crooks’ actions prior to the attack but are stumped by the lack of clear motives. Despite thorough searches of his digital and personal life, no political or ideological reasons have emerged. His interests appeared to center around computer coding and gaming.

A concerning discovery was a remote control detonator on Crooks and explosives in his car, suggesting he might have planned to set off an explosion as a distraction during the shooting. The weapon used was an AR-style rifle legally bought by his father, Matthew Crooks, who legally owns over 20 firearms. The investigation into how Crooks assembled the explosives in his car continues, with no evidence of him researching bomb-making online.

Crooks and his father were members of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, a gun club located about 25 minutes from their home where they often went shooting together. The club, which boasts approximately 2,000 members, features a 200-yard-long rifle range nestled within 180 acres of wooded hills south of Pittsburgh. The range exceeds the distance between Crooks and Trump during the shooting incident, according to CNN.

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Following the incident, Crooks’ father was contacted but chose not to comment until speaking with law enforcement. His initial reaction to the news was one of confusion and a need for more information. The FBI managed to access his son’s cell phone, hoping it would provide insights into his motives, but officials remain puzzled. According to law enforcement sources, Crooks’ parents, who have been cooperating with the investigation, described their son as solitary and apolitical, noting a lack of recent awareness of his activities.

In an ABC News interview on Monday, Kimberly Cheatle, director of the Secret Service, took responsibility for the security lapses during the recent assassination attempt on Trump. “The buck stops with me,” she said when questioned about accountability for the incident.

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When asked about the lack of security on the rooftop from which the attack was carried out, Cheatle explained that the rooftop in question had a sloped peak, which posed safety concerns for positioning an agent there.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at it’s highest point and so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof and so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from the inside,” Cheatle said.

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