Crooks, who was described as a “outcast” and frequently wore hunting gear to school, lived in a wealthy city about an hour away from the location of his assassination attempt.
The shooter in Saturday night’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Although Crooks was a Republican registered voter in Pennsylvania, federal campaign finance reports also indicate that on January 20, 2021, he contributed $15 to a leftist political action group.
Not allowed to join the school rifle team, a “outcast”
Crooks was described as a “loner” who was “bullied so much in high school” by his 21-year-old classmate Jason Kohler.
According to Mr. Kohler, he would frequently dress in hunting attire and would frequently be teased for it.
“At lunch, he would sit by himself. “He was simply the misfit,” Mr. Kohler remarked. “It’s honestly kind of sad.”
Frederick Mach, a current team captain who attended the school a few years after Crooks, claimed that Crooks was turned away from the rifle squad after trying out because he was “a bad shooter.”.
