TMZ.com
Thomas Matthew Crooks — the shooter who tried and did not take out Donald Trump — clearly had a raunchy, sophomoric humorousness … as seen in new video obtained by TMZ.
Within the clip we bought from a former pal of Crooks, you’ll be able to see him joking about being endowed with 10 inches, and in addition claiming he is a 6’4″ scholar at Stanford. In actuality, Crooks was only a tenth grader when this was shot, and we’re informed he was making humorous movies with classmates whereas they have been all in a pc tech class.
His buddy tells us the video was shot in Feb 2020 at Metal Middle Profession and Technical Training in Jefferson Hills, PA — which offers profession and technical schooling to college students attending a number of public college districts in PA. We’ve got reached out to the varsity to substantiate Crooks’ enrollment … however have not heard again.
The previous classmate says Crooks was quiet at first, however step by step opened up. He was cool, pleasant, and bought alongside along with his classmates.
Crooks was additionally described to us as a savant when it got here to laptop tech. He was some of the proficient college students at school — having the ability to take computer systems aside and reassemble them with no hitch.
He was into video video games, too, particularly “Fortnite” and “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.” For what it is value, these are each first-person shooter video games.
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The previous classmate tells us Crooks didn’t deliver up politics or weapons whereas within the classroom. For sure, he was completely floored to seek out out Thomas tried to assassinate Trump.
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TMZ.com
TMZ bought footage of Crooks taking pictures with an AR-15 model rifle, 130 yards away from Trump after positioning himself on a constructing simply exterior the Pennsylvania rally.
In addition to wounding the ex-Prez, Crooks killed one particular person within the crowd and injured 2 others … earlier than Secret Service snipers killed him lower than a minute later.
Crooks was a registered Republican, and the FBI’s nonetheless making an attempt to determine his motive.
