He used an AR-style rifle allegedly purchased by his father to assassinate Trump.
FBI investigates attempted assassination of candidate US President Donald Trump as an act of domestic terrorism. However, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks did not have clear ideological motives, which led to the development of conspiracy theories.
AP News writes about this.
As noted, the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that Crooks did not have an accomplice. Investigators did not find any threatening comments on social media or expressions of ideological positions that could help determine what motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks to attempt to assassinate Trump.
At the same time, the Crooks family is cooperating with the investigation. Law enforcement officers studied Thomas' history and activities on social networks. The chat app Discord, popular among people who play online games, said Crooks appeared to have an account but used it rarely and not within the last few months. There is no evidence he used his account to promote violence or discuss his political views, a Discord spokesperson said.
In addition, investigators discovered that Thomas tried to join the school shooting team, but was rejected because he was a poor shooter. His peers at school say that he experienced constant bullying from other children.
To assassinate Trump, he used an AR-type rifle that his father allegedly purchased. It is not yet known whether he took the gun without his father's permission.
On the day of the attack, Crooks was wearing a T-shirt from Demolition Ranch, a popular YouTube channel that regularly posts videos of its creator firing pistols and machine guns at targets that included human dummies.
Crux had bomb-making materials found in the car he drove to the rally.
Recall that the shooter of US ex-President Donald Trump turned out to be 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. He was killed by the FBI seconds after he opened fire on the stage where Trump was speaking.
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