A criminal profiler shared the behavioral science behind the investigation into Thomas Matthew Crooks’ motivation that led him to attempt to assassinate former President Trump.
– A criminal profiler said Thomas Matthew Crooks’ assassination attempt on former President Trump in western Pennsylvania last week was likely not politically motivated and not a random act of violence.
Keith Howard, the chief deputy of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia and a criminal profiler, shared with Fox News Digital the behavioral science behind Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attempted assassination.
Howard said the shooting of Trump points to an “organized thinker” and not a random act of violence.
“As much chaos as these events may bring to what we observed, they really are organized thinkers”, he said. “Think of it not as an impulsive act. They don’t typically just wake up in the morning and go, ‘There’s going to be a presidential candidate in my county, in my district, so I’m just going to go over and try to kill him.’
“Regardless of how, if you look at this type of individual and go, ‘Well, he may have been a loner or didn’t have many friends or weren’t close, it doesn’t mean he can’t think”, he said.
Howard said the FBI’s investigation may reveal this is a crime of opportunity.
“And if we do this behavioral analysis, if he’s searching for something to be infamous, then when he’s searching for the Trump rallies and the Democratic National Convention, and he sees that one is going to be in his backyard, now all his actions have come into place.
