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Thomas Matthew Crooks was a quiet, bullied, lonely boy at school, and so far the investigation into the young man who was identified as the shooter in the assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump returned frustratingly little about his intention.
Ironically, the 20-year-old was described by former high school classmates as a terrible shot. Crooks, who fired several shots at Trump during the Butler rally in Pennsylvania, was reportedly rejected from his school’s rifle team. He was all set to cast his vote for the first time in the November 5 presidential elections. But, it was not to be.
On July 13, the US Secret Service shot and killed him while he was trying to assassinate Trump. Though the Presidential aspirant of the Republican Party escaped unhurt, the firing killed one spectator and critically injured two others.
Although his family, classmates, school, and work colleagues did not firmly speak about his leanings, there were some possible signs in him that gave away an interest in politics. The whitened registered Republican had donated, as a 17-year-old, a small amount to the Democratic Party and put his name down as a voter only a week after he turned 18.
But much speculation has been done about his political affiliations and motive, simply because the FBI named Crooks as the shooter; it flared up in what was already a bitter political divide in the US. The information about him so far – pieced together from home, neighborhood, school, and workplace – creates a picture of a man whose ideology was not instantly clear.
