What we know about Donald Trump shooting suspect

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What we know about Donald Trump ********* suspect

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By Tom McArthur, BBC News

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The FBI says it has identified the man who

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Thomas Matthew Crooks is alleged to have opened ***** while the former US president was addressing a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one audience member ***** and two others badly hurt.

The 20-year-old was shot ***** at the scene by a Secret Service *******, officials said.

In a statement, the FBI said Crooks was the “subject involved” in the ************** attempt on the former president and that an active investigation was under way.

He had not been carrying ID, so investigators used DNA to identify him, the FBI said.

He was from Bethel Park in Pennsylvania, about 70km (43 miles) from Butler, the site of the attempted **************, and appears to have graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper.

State voter records show that Crooks was a registered ***********, according to US media.

He is also reported to have donated $15 to ******** campaign group ActBlue in 2021.

What was his motivation?

Agencies are investigating his motive and whether anybody else was involved.

“We do not currently have an identified motive,” said Kevin Rojek, FBI Pittsburgh special agent in charge, at a briefing on Saturday night.

The inquiry into what took place could last for months and investigators would work “tirelessly” to identify what Crooks’ motive was, Mr Rojek said.

Speaking to CNN, Crooks’ father, Matthew Crooks, said he was trying to figure out “what the ***** is going on” but would “wait until I talk to law enforcement” before speaking about his son.

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Video obtained by US news outlet TMZ shows a gunman on a roof opening *****

One person was ******* and two others were injured in the *********. All three victims are ****** males and were audience members, CBS News reports. Their names have not been released.

In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear”.

“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” Trump wrote. “Much bleeding took place, so I realised then what was happening.”

Blood was clearly visible on Trump’s ear and face as protection officers rushed him away.

Trump is “doing well” and is grateful to law enforcement officers, according to a statement published on the *********** National Committee (RNC) website.

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One witness told the BBC that he had seen a man – believed to be Crooks – with a rifle on the roof of a building before Trump was shot at.

BBC Verify analysed footage and confirmed that the gunman opened ***** from on top of a flat warehouse building

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Video footage obtained by TMZ shows the

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The assailant opened ***** with “an AR-style rifle”, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reports.

However, the FBI says it could not immediately ascertain what type of firearm the gunman used or how many shots were fired.

A Secret Service ******* returned ***** and ******* the gunman, the agency said.

Footage later shows armed officers approaching a body on the roof of the building.

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