The official cause and manner of death of former President Donald Trump’s assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks has been released.
The Butler County Coroner’s Office told Fox News Digital on Saturday that Crooks died of a gunshot wound. His manner of death was ruled a homicide.
The 20-year-old man who fired five shots at a Trump rally on July 13, gashing the former president’s ear 26 seconds later, was pronounced dead in Butler County. He was “subdued”.
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Undated photo of Thomas Matthew Crooks. (AFP handout)
The Butler County Coroner’s Office said an autopsy was completed in neighboring Allegheny County, where Crooks lived in Bethel Park. Fox News Digital has reached out to the county office for comment.
It’s unclear what happened to Crooks’ body after the examination. Fox News Digital has not yet reached out to his family for comment.
Photo of 20-year-old man who attempted assassination although investigators have yet to determine his motive former president trump This becomes clearer as his former classmates speak out about their impressions.
Trump shooter’s former US Politics classmate talks to would-be assassin Thomas Crooks
Undated file photo of Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was the alleged gunman who assassinated former President Donald Trump on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Obtained by Fox News Digital Channel)
A video of the graduation ceremony on YouTube shows a slender, bespectacled Thomas Matthew Crooks receiving his diploma at Bethel Park High School in 2022. Hardly anyone clapped.
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This image shows an aerial view of a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the alleged would-be assassin’s vantage point. (Fox News)
Julianna Grooms, who graduated a year after Crooks, told the Wall Street Journal that “people were going to say he was the student who would shoot up the school” and that he was bullied and was an “easy one.” Target”.
But a classmate who rode the school bus with Crooks, whose sister was close to the shooter, told Fox News Digital that classmates “made up” the “most random information” to give him a false description.
“He didn’t talk much, but when someone talked to him, he had a good conversation,” the former Bethel Park High School student, who graduated a year after Crooks, said Friday night. “He’s easy to talk to. He makes great conversations, he’s very calm, very humble.”
A police officer walks past a home believed to be linked to the gunman who assassinated former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, on Monday, July 15, 2024, in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Any clues. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puska)
“He had friends — he had friends on the bus, in class,” the classmate said. “Not a lot of people knew him, but the people who did know him never had a bad experience with him.”
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“You have to be crazy to do what he did, but I was so surprised when I found out it was him,” she said.
