Law enforcement authorities have identified the man who made an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The FBI said the shooter, who is dead, was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A motive was not clear.
The gunman was immediately “neutralized” by the Secret Service, chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi said.
Bethel Park is a predominantly white, relatively well-to-do city in the southern reaches of greater Pittsburgh. The site of the rally, Butler, is about an hour’s drive north of Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania voter records listed a Thomas Matthew Crooks with the same address and birth date as a registered Republican, though it was not clear from the records when that was put in place.
At a news conference Saturday night, law enforcement said the investigation was close to making a positive identification of the shooter, who did not have identification on him, state police Lt. Col. George Bivens said.
“The shooter has been tentatively identified,” he said. “It’s a matter of doing biometric confirmations.”
Investigators have also prioritized finding a motive and determining whether the shooter had accomplices, authorities said at the news conference.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
FBI je rela da je napadač, koji je mrtav, identificiran kao 20-godišnji Thomas Matthew Crooks iz Bethel Parka, Pennsylvania. Motiv nije bio jasan.
Bethel Park je pretežno bijeli, relativno dobrostojeći grad u južnim dijelovima šireg Pittsburgha. Mjesto održavanja skupa, Butler, udaljeno je oko sat vremena vožnje sjeverno od Pittsburgha.
Evidencija birača u Pennsylvaniji navodi Thomasa Matthewa Crooksa s istom adresom i datumom rođenja kao registrirani republikanac, iako iz evidencije nije bilo jasno kada je to uvedeno.
Na konferenciji za novinare u subotu večer, policija je rekla da je istraga blizu utvrđivanja ubojice, koji nije imao identifikaciju kod sebe, rekao je potpukovnik državne policije George Bivens.
“Pucač je privremeno identificiran”, rekao je. “Stvar je obavljanja biometrijskih potvrda.”
Istražitelji su također dali prioritet pronalaženju motiva i određivanju je li ubojica imao suradnike, rekle su vlasti na konferenciji za novinare.
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