Rally Gunman Googled Mass Shooter Ethan Crumbley

July 19, 2024 Crime, Guns

The Trump rally shooter searched online for information on the arrest of a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted in a 2021 high school shooting. He visited websites for how to build explosives.

And in the minutes before he fired shots in an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, he screenshotted a picture from a livestream of the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.

A week before the shooting, Thomas Matthew Crooks searched online for the date of the Democratic National Convention and where Trump planned to speak, as well as other searches for Trump and President Joe Biden.

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News: Shooter at Trump’s rally researched arrest photo of Ethan Crumbley – the student who shot & killed four classmates at a Michigan high school in 2021 – along w/ info about Crumbley & his parents prior to attack.

me, @evanperez & @HolmesLybrand https://t.co/7EcQTN4g6C

— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) July 19, 2024