Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who shot at Donald Trump?

A resident of Bethel Park in Pennsylvania, Thomas Matthew Crooks was a registered Republican who would have been eligible to cast his first presidential vote in the presidential elections scheduled to be held on November 5 this year.

He had graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022 with a reputation of a bright, and quiet classmate, news agency Reuters reported. His high school counselor described him as “respectful,” someone who mostly “kept to himself” and said he never considered Crooks to be political.