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Trump rally shooting: FBI names 20-year-old from Bethel Park as ‘subject involved’

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Agents have not identified a motive for the assassination attempt on the former president at a campaign rally

Trump rally shooting: FBI names 20-year-old from Bethel Park as ‘subject involved’

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.

The political leanings of Crooks, who was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination, were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on 20 January 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.

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