Thomas Crooks

2 weeks ago - Thomas Matthew Crooks (September 20, 2003 – July 13, 2024) was an American man who attempted to assassinate then-former U.S. president Donald Trump, who at the time was the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election.

1 day ago - Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL and the former head instructor of the SEAL Sniper course, said a well-trained shooter could hit a target with a high degree of accuracy using an AR-15 at the distance at which Crooks shot Trump, especially with a magnified optical gunsight, such as an ACOG. On July 13, the day of the assassination attempt, Crooks bought a five-foot (1.5-meter) ladder before driving to the site of the rally in the morning.

September 23, 2025 - A federal jury today convicted Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, of Hawaii, for attempting to assassinate President Donald J. Trump when he was a major presidential candidate in a planned sniper attack at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, ...

February 6, 2025 - A federal grand jury in Miami late this afternoon returned an indictment charging Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, with attempting to kill former President Donald J. Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15.

September 11, 2025 - The trial begins nearly a year after prosecutors say a Secret Service agent thwarted his attempt to shoot the Republican presidential nominee. It's expected to run two or three weeks. The trial's start comes as police search for the gunman who killed conservative influencer Charlie Kirk at a campus in Utah on Wednesday in what political leaders are calling an assassination. Prosecutors have said Routh, 59, methodically plotted to kill Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as Trump played golf on Sept.

July 16, 2024 - The FBI is investigating the shooting incident at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which resulted in one victim's death and injuries to former President Trump and other spectators, as an assassination attempt and potential domestic terrorism. While the investigation to date indicates the shooter acted alone, the FBI continues to conduct logical investigative activity to determine if there were any co-conspirators associated with this attack.

July 24, 2024 - Federal authorities are investigating after former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. The alleged shooter was killed by snipers.

U.S. Secret Service agents killed the shooter shortly after the shots were fired.[3] The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks on July 14, 2024.[13] This section provides a timeline of events related to the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.

1 week ago - Trump was shot and wounded in his upper right ear before dropping to the ground and being shielded by the Secret Service. Crooks also killed one member of the audience, Corey Comperatore, as well as critically injuring two others, prior to being shot and killed by a member of the Secret Service Counter Sniper Team. The assassination attempt prompted the resignation of the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, as well as several ongoing investigations into the incident as a political assassination attempt as well as an act of domestic terrorism.

July 9, 2025 - Nearly one year after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, David Dutch and Jim Copenhaver recounted the terror of being shot during the campaign rally.

September 22, 2025 - Prosecutors have said Routh spent weeks plotting to kill Trump before aiming a rifle through shrubbery as Trump played golf on Sept. 15, 2024, at his West Palm Beach country club. Routh has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations.

2 days ago - On September 15, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt by Russo-Ukrainian war activist Ryan Wesley Routh while ...

September 25, 2024 - The attempted assassination indictment had been foreshadowed during a court hearing Monday in which prosecutors successfully argued for the 58-year-old Routh to remain behind bars as a flight risk and a threat to public safety. They alleged that he had written of his plans to kill Trump in a handwritten note months before his Sept.

July 14, 2024 - The man identified as the shooter in the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a 20-year-old from a Pittsburg suburb not far from the campaign rally where one attendee was killed.