What we know about gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks who shot at Trump at his Pennsylvania rally

The gunman who carried out an attempted assassination on Donald Trump at a rally has been identified by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks.

The 20-year-old resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle while the former president was speaking on stage in the rural town of Butler on Saturday.

Multiple shots were fired toward the stage and Trump was quickly surrounded and rushed to safetyby his Secret Service detail, withblood streaming from his ear down his cheek.

Trump confirmed that one of the bullets had struck him in the right ear. A Secret Service sniper shot dead the gunman at the scene.

Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, died in the shooting while trying to protect his family at the rally.

The FBI said they were investigating the shooting as a potential act of domestic terrorism, but the ideological motive of the man shot dead by the Secret Service remains unknown.

Law enforcement officials said that they were using the shooter’s DNA for biometric confirmation as he was carrying no identification at the time of the attack.

Crooks lived in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, located around 35 miles south of where Trump was holding his rally in Butler County.

Local media reported that Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022 and received a $500 “star award” that year from the National Math and Science Initiative.

Jason Kohler, who said he attended the same high school but did not share any classes with Crooks, said Crooks was bullied at school and sat alone at lunch time.

Other students mocked him for the way he dressed, such as hunting outfits, Kohler said. “He was bullied almost every day,” Kohler told reporters. “He was just a outcast, and