Trump rally shooter identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks

Police have identified the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

The FBI said the gunman, who is dead, was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A motive was not clear.

The shooter was immediately “neutralized” by the Secret Service, communications chief Anthony Guglielmi said.

Bethel Park is a predominantly white, relatively affluent city in the southern part of Greater Pittsburgh. The rally’s location, Butler, is about an hour’s drive north of Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania voter records show a Thomas Matthew Crooks has the same address and birth date as a registered Republican. However, the records are unclear as to when that happened.

At a news conference Saturday night, police said the investigation was close to positively identifying the shooter, who had no identification on him, State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said.

“The shooter has been provisionally identified,” he said. “It’s a matter of biometric confirmations.”

Authorities said at the news conference that investigators are prioritizing finding a motive and determining whether the shooter had accomplices.

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