FBI agents told reporters on Monday that Thomas Crooks was interested in «science» and «experiments,» therefore, his family didn’t find his many packages suspicious.
The FBI told reporters on Monday that would-be presidential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had a long-standing «interest in science» and «experiments», and as a result, his family «wasn’t concerned» about the myriad packages he was receiving at their house.
Crooks, 20, made 25 gun-related purchases online between spring 2023 and the first half of this year and bought materials used to make explosives six times, all with aliases, according to the agency. On July 13, he opened fire at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, injuring the former president and two others while killing firefighter Corey Comperatore.
«The shooter had a long interest in science and things like this and had been doing experiments and things like that over a period of time», said Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office. «For that reason, [his family] wasn’t concerned that [the packages] were focused on committing an attack of this nature of harming other people.
