Donald Trump was shot in the ear Saturday by a 20-year-old registered Republican described by most former classmates as a loner who was bullied in high school, with at least two describing him as a conservative.
The FBI has identified the deceased shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Crooks, who graduated high school in 2022, used his father’s legally purchased “AR-style 556” semiautomatic rifle, per the bureau, to open fire on the former president as he spoke at a campaign rally, wounding the presumptive Republican nominee, killing another man, and injuring two other attendees who had come to hear him speak. Crooks was shot dead by a member of the Secret Service.
