The FBI director says that a shooter at the rally searched for information about the JFK assassination
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This is from search results, so news stories. And again, there is nothing, no pattern, from that particular piece of information that is overly remarkable so far.”
In the past, NPR and other outlets have reported that images of the president, the attorney general, the FBI Director, and others were found on the phone of one of the investigators.
“From everything we’ve seen, it seems like he’s a lonely person, and that’s consistent with what we’ve learned from the interviews,” he said. It seems like that fits with what we are seeing in his devices. His list of contacts, for example, is very short compared to what you would normally see from most people. It doesn’t seem like there is much interaction between him and a lot of people.
On the day of the shooting, they went to a shooting range and fired a rifle. The director described the shooter as a fairly avid shooting hobbyist.
It could explain why it was less easy for people to observe the rifle.
Investigators now believe, Wray said, that Crooks climbed up onto the roof where he fired from by using “some mechanical equipment on the ground and vertical piping” on the side of the building. The bureau still has not determined, however, when the gunman got onto the roof.
A transmitter was found on Crooks’ body, he said, but it appears that the receivers on the explosive devices were not turned on so he wouldn’t have been able to detonate them.
Investigators recovered the drone in the gunman’s vehicle along with its controller. They have been able to reverse engineer the device, but they don’t know if it was something that Crooks saw or something else.
Source: FBI director says gunman at Trump rally searched for info on JFK assassination
The FBI investigation of the assassembly attempt on the life of the former president and a black man, J.D. Wray
He spent 20 minutes there a week before the event. He was on site for over 70 minutes the morning of the rally, the second time he was there. He never left the third time because it was late that afternoon a few hours before the event.
“Having said that, it does appear fairly clear that he was interested in public figures more broadly and, I think this is important, starting somewhere around July 6 or so, he became very focused on former president Trump and this rally,” he told lawmakers.
The FBI has gained access to Crooks’ digital devices, Wray said, but investigators still have not found anything that points to a motive or political ideology.
The testimony came 11 days after a shooting attempt on the life of Donald Trump, and included details about the shooter.
“An analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter reveals that on July 6 he did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ ” Wray said. That search is significant in his state of mind. That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally.”
The FBI director said Wednesday that the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump conducted an online search a week before the shooting.
Trump gunman’s hometown of Bethel Park reels after assassination attempt: “What does it take to kill a young man? “
“Except in the winter time, when they plow the street, they salt it, he always shifts his salt right there at the stop sign,” said Turney, pointing out the window of his modest brick home at a four-way intersection just outside. “It wakes you up,” he said with a laugh.
That’s, in part, why recent events struck like a thunderbolt: when they discovered the 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally grew up here, thrusting this largely overlooked Pennsylvania suburb into international headlines.
Federal investigators have still not figured out a clear reason for the July 13 assassination attempt.
In terms of politics, Bethel Park is an example of America’s political divisions. There are both Democratic and Trump signs around where the shooting took place.
The police tape around the house has been taken down and the big broadcast TV trucks have left.
Chesleah Kribs, 30, a homeowner down the street from the shooter’s house, said she is still shaking off the startling knocks on the door she received from federal law enforcement officials around 3 a.m. the Sunday after the shooting.
Investigators discovered improvised explosives in the shooter’s car. People were evacuated and others were not. She was allowed to return around noon that Sunday.
“Right at 12:15 you saw neighbors just walking their dogs, whether it’s being nosy or just trying to get back to normal. She said that’s the community: Let’s just get back to normal.
She said they are known for loving their neighbors and making sure that everyone knows that they are welcome, no matter what side of the political spectrum you are on.
Source: Trump gunman’s hometown of Bethel Park reels after assassination attempt
The day the cops shot him in the foot of the Pittsburgh Pirates: The woman riding a bicycle in the street explains how the gunman allegedly shot himself
On the day police tape was removed, local girl left her house and rode her bike down the street. She said there is just a different feeling in the air.
She, like most neighbors around the shooter, had never spoken to him, or his family, but chatter about the gunman has haunted her everywhere she goes – back home, the grocery store, at her job at a local country club. Everyone is talking about it, she said.
On a recent evening, he sat on his porch watching the Pittsburgh Pirates game and drinking a beer as his English Black Lab named Lady ran around the yard.
