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Edward Helmore in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Trump shooting motive remains elusive as FBI pores over suspect’s home town

A police officer walks past a home believed to be connected to the shooter in the Donald Trump assassination attempt in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
A police officer walks past a home believed to be connected to the shooter in the Donald Trump assassination attempt in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on Monday. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP

FBI agents went house to house scouring the Bethel Park neighborhood lived in by Thomas Matthew Crooks and his family as mystery continued to surround the motives of the gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump while he was addressing a crowd in nearby Butler, Pennsylvania.

The FBI said it had managed to access Crooks’s phone but preliminary analysis of the information at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, had reportedly not advanced the search into Crooks’s reasons for shooting at Trump, injuring the former US president, killing a rally-goer and wounding two more.

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