Bethel Park School District denied Trump’s would-be assassin was bullied and said he never threatened to shoot at the school.
Thomas Matthew Crooks’ school district has denied a number of widely circulated claims about the school years of the 20-year-old suspected gunman in last week’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
At the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper after opening fire on Trump from a nearby roof with a rifle, grazing Trump’s ear, and killing local firefighter Corey Comperatore. Two other attendees were also seriously injured.
His motive and political affiliation remains unclear.
In a statement posted on Saturday, Bethel Park School District denied that Crooks was bullied, as had been previously reported by his classmates.
“There is a painful misconception that Thomas Crooks was relentlessly bullied in school, which may have led to the assassination attempt on former President Trump”, the school district wrote.
