FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that people who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump searched online for “How far was Oswald from JFK?” a week before the rally shooting was reported New York Times.
Investigators recovered search records from a laptop associated with 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was referring to the 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “This search was clearly significant in terms of his mental state,” Wray said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. “It appears that he signed up to attend the Butler rally on the same day.”
It is reported NowRay said Crooks visited the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania, twice on the morning of July 13. During the second visit, the gunman appeared to fly the drone over the exhibition grounds for about 11 minutes. According to CNBC, the drone was manufactured by DJI Innovations.
The FBI also hacked into the shooter’s phone last week, but his motives remain unclear. “Many of the common repositories did not yield anything noteworthy in terms of motivation or ideology,” Wray said.
