The zit faced little nerd who tried to assassinate Trump over the past weekend apparently not only reseached past mass shooters like Ethan Crumbley, but also stalked Trump and watched a livestream of him just before the attempt attack
Failed assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks researched school shooter Ethan Crumbley and other mass shooters – and took a screenshot from a livestream of former President Trump speaking just moments before opening fire, it emerged Friday.
The troubling search history leads investigators to believe that loner Crooks, 20, was mostly focused on a mass-casualty event — and that Trump’s rally close to his home in Pennsylvania was more about convenience than an ideological target, a US official briefed on the issue told CNN.
His research included looking up how to build explosives, the report said — with some found in his home, and a detonator also lying next to his body after he was finally killed by a sniper.
Crooks also looked up mass shooters, law enforcement sources told The Post — including Crumbley, who was just 15 when he gunned down four classmates at Oxford High School in December 2021.
Crooks had a photo on his phone of the mass shooter just after his arrest — and also had information about Crumbley’s parents, who are both convicted of involuntary manslaughter for failing to stop their son’s carnage, the CNN report said.