{"id":40622,"date":"2024-07-15T03:39:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40622"},"modified":"2024-07-15T03:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:39:51","slug":"thomas-matthew-crooks-what-we-know-about-the-trump-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40622","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Matthew Crooks: What we know about the Trump attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park in Pennsylvania is reeling after the FBI named a young local man, Thomas Matthew Crooks, as the person who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd1d31jeyzlo\">shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally<\/a>\u00a0and shocked the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators believe that Crooks, armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, opened fire at the former president while he was addressing a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one audience member dead and two others wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 20-year-old kitchen worker was shot dead at the scene by a Secret Service sniper, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his well-to-do hometown, however, neighbours are in shock, seemingly unable to grasp how a quiet young man is now accused in the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI, for its part, has said only that Crooks was the &#8220;subject involved in the assassination attempt on the former president and that an active investigation was under way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The small Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park in Pennsylvania is reeling after the FBI named a young local man, Thomas Matthew Crooks, as the person who\u00a0shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally\u00a0and shocked the nation. Investigators believe that Crooks, armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, opened fire at the former president while he was addressing a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one audience member dead and two others wounded. The 20-year-old kitchen worker was shot dead at the scene by a Secret Service sniper, officials said. In his well-to-do hometown, however, neighbours are in shock, seemingly unable to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40624,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40622\/revisions\/40624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}