An anonymous donor paid to have the Trump assassination attempt gunman’s body cremated, FBI records show
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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the loner who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump, killed an innocent bystander and wounded two others often used the alias Bob Dole, ordered suspicious packages and a mysterious anonymous donor paid for his body to be cremated, according to an investigative story by Fox News Digital.
Using federal documents, Fox News reported that the records turned over to the Senate show Thomas’ actions were a surprise to his family, and his motive is still unknown.
Crooks, 20, often collected packages addressed to the Dole alias before his father, who worked late, came home.
In July 2024, Crooks was shot and killed after firing at a Trump rally in July 2024. A family attorney told investigators that he had been cremated shortly thereafter — paid for by an anonymous donor, according to the documents.
His father, Matthew Crooks, took an early retirement after the shooting. His mother, Mary Crooks, went on leave from work to cope with the aftermath.
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The documents, compiled as part of the investigation into the 2024 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, also include interviews with his father, who told FBI agents the gunman “never identified anyone as a friend throughout middle school and high school.”
When investigators interviewed Crooks’ parents the day after the shooting, his father told them that although his son socialized with classmates, the gunman told him they were not his friends.
According to Fox News, in the months prior to the shooting, Crooks’s father noticed that his son was talking to himself. His father, who worked in the mental health field, said he did not see other signs of a potential mental illness.
Still, his father described Crooks as a straight-A student who scored a 1400 on his first SAT attempt, without studying, he told investigators. Nevertheless, his son feared he might not get into college and showed a change of behavior between his freshman and sophomore years of high school. He became quieter and had a hard time speaking with teachers.
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