Thomas Matthew Crooks — the would-be murderer who tried and did not take out Donald Trump — now has an official explanation for dying within the books … if it wasn’t already apparent.
The Butler County Coroner tells TMZ … Crooks died from a gunshot wound to the pinnacle, and the coroner is ruling his dying a murder. After all, he was shot and killed by a Secret Service agent after he opened hearth into the group in Butler, PA this weekend.
Whereas that final element is kinda attention-grabbing — the murder half — we’re instructed it is NOT the coroner’s choice to find out whether or not Crooks’ capturing dying was justifiable or not. All issues thought-about … the agent who took him out was greater than justified to tug the set off.
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Keep in mind … we acquired footage of Crooks firing an AR-15-style rifle from the highest of a constructing simply outdoors Trump’s rally … with Crooks positioned solely about 130 yards away from DT.
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Crooks wounded Trump, killed one individual and injured 2 others within the crowd … earlier than snipers killed him inside a minute of him opening hearth … with a deadly headshot. There is a picture floating round on-line that purports to indicate his physique within the aftermath … and it definitely appears like what the coroner is telling us.
The picture in query is extremely graphic and appears to have been taken by an official who attended to his physique.
As we reported, 20-year-old Crooks additionally tried and did not make his highschool rifle crew … getting rejected as a result of he was a horrible shot. Though, value noting … he is reported to have been a part of a neighborhood capturing membership regardless.
Fortuitously, the snipers who took him out had a lot better purpose.