Law enforcement authorities have identified the man who made an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The FBI confirmed that the shooter, who is now deceased, was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The motive for the attack remains unclear at this time.
The gunman was immediately “neutralized” by the Secret Service, according to Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi.
Bethel Park is a predominantly white, relatively affluent city in the southern reaches of greater Pittsburgh. The site of the rally, Butler, is about an hour’s drive north of Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania voter records listed a Thomas Matthew Crooks with the same address and birth date as a registered Republican, though it was not clear from the records when that was last updated.
At a news conference Saturday night, law enforcement said the investigation was close to making a positive identification of the shooter, who did not have identification on him, state police Lt. Col. George Bivens said.
“The shooter has been tentatively identified,” he said. “It’s a matter of doing biometric confirmations.”
Investigators have also prioritized finding a motive and determining whether the shooter had accomplices, authorities said at the news conference.
