Although Thomas Mathew Crooks was a young man, he does not fit the profile of a one-off mass shooter seeking some type of revenge or infamy. Nor do I think that he was suffering from delusions of grandeur like his target Donald Trump, or that Crooks thought that he could or would become some kind of superhero if he succeeded.
If Crooks was obsessed with politics, there is no evidence of it on or offline. Nor did he have a social history of family abuse or neglect. Crooks' one commonality with some of those other shooters appears to be a high-powered semiautomatic weapon used in his intentional attempt to assassinate presidential candidate Trump and in the unintentional killing of one individual and the injuring of three other innocent bystanders.
