FBI director discusses search history and drone details of Trump rally shooter

The man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump searched the web for “How far was Oswald from Kennedy?” a week before the rally shooting, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. Reported by the new York Times,

Investigators recovered traces from a laptop belonging to 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks that referenced the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. “This is a trace that is obviously significant in terms of his mental state,” Ray said. During the hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. “This is the same day it appears he registered for the Butler rally.”

As mentioned in the report new york timesWray said Crooks visited the Butler, Pennsylvania rally site twice on the morning of July 13. During his second visit, the shooter flew a drone around the showgrounds for about 11 minutes. The drone was made by DJI, According to a report by CNBC,

The FBI also broke the shooter’s phone last week, but his motive remains unclear. “A lot of the usual repositories of information haven’t turned up anything remarkable in terms of motive or ideology,” Wray said.