Authorities have identified the gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Crooks, who graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022, was found to have made a small contribution to a Democratic-aligned group, the Progressive Turnout Project, in January 2021.
Crooks, who was registered to vote as a Republican, had no prior criminal record and this year's presidential election would have been his first opportunity to vote. The shooting incident took place at a Trump rally in a Pittsburgh suburb, where Crooks fired at the former president from a rooftop outside the rally's security perimeter.
