Thomas Crookes’ Neighbors Speak Out
Kelly Little, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, told Fox News Digital that she rarely saw the family of the Trump shooter, despite living across the street.
More details are now being learned about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump.
“I think it’s important to be aware of what’s going on in your life,” said a 20-year-old former high school counselor from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 Crooks said he was “not a threat to society” and “not a problem at all.”
Jim Knapp told a local television station that Crooks had never been in trouble at school or used mental health resources.
“He was very polite, very agile, very in tune and when you talked to him it was just a good conversation,” Knapp said.
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Undated photograph of Thomas Matthew Crookes. (Courtesy of AFP)
Crooks is a 2022 graduate of Bethel Park High School, according to a graduation video on YouTube.
Knapp retired from the school that same year. He first started working with Crooks when he was a sophomore at the school. Crooks didn’t need any special care, so the two saw each other only once or twice a year, Knapp said.
“Thomas was a very quiet, intelligent young man,” Knapp said. “You know, he took AP courses, he took honors classes, he took college prep courses. He really took care of his business.”
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File photo of Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 2022 graduate of Bethel Park High School. (Source: Fox News Digital)
Knapp said the news that Crooks was behind the attempted assassination of President Trump at the Butler rally was “heartbreaking.”
“I think this young man just lost it,” Knapp said. “He lost it, and there is evil in the world and he is ruled by evil.”
A former classmate, Jason Kohler, told Fox News that Crooks was “isolated and alone” and “bullied every day”.
Kohler told reporters that Crooks would sit alone at lunch and would often be mocked for wearing “hunting clothes.”
An undated yearbook photograph of Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Source: Fox News Digital)
Crooks had just finished his engineering degree from a local community college two months earlier.
A Fox News Digital investigation found that Crooks would have turned 21 in September and had no criminal or traffic offenses on his record.
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According to voting records, Crooks was registered as a Republican. November 8, 2022 State Election, Because of my age.
Fox News’ Christina Coulter and Scott McDonald contributed to this report.
