BREAKING NEWS Thomas Crooks' parents 'called the cops on the day of the Trump rally shooting'
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 17, 2024 | wills Robinson
Posted on 7/17/2024, 1:08:29 PM by Morgana
The parents of Donald Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks called the cops to say he was missing before the shooting, a bombshell new report claims
It follows another stunning development that the 20-year-old gunman was at the former president's rally three hours before opening fire and sparked the suspicions of the Secret Service because he was carrying a rangefinder used by hunters to take long shots.
Crooks' parents called law enforcement in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to say they were concerned about their son's whereabouts, Fox News reported.
He climbed onto a roof and shot Trump and killed retired volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore at the rally in Butler, 50 miles from his home.
Crooks told his boss that he needed the day off from work on Saturday and gave colleagues a final chilling message: That he would be back on Sunday. His father told law enforcement he assumed his son had gone to the shooting range at the The Clairton Sportsmen's Club to practice with his rifle and would be back by 1pm on Saturday, CNN reported.
But as time went on he grew more concerned and phoned local law enforcement.
At around 3pm on Saturday, Crooks was spotted at the rally's security screening area and tried to pass through metal detectors with the rangefinder, which is used by shooters to measure distance.
The device, which looks like a small pair of binoculars, would not have prevented him getting into the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but did put him on law enforcement's radar.
The Secret Service watched him but lost track of Crooks when he left the secure area.
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