Pentagon Clarifies Trump’s Shooter Not Affiliated With U.S. Military

According to a Pentagon statement from July 15th, the gunman who narrowly missed killing former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday was not associated with any component of the US Military.

While Trump was addressing a gathering of supporters in Butler, Thomas Matthew Crooks (20) of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, began firing from a rooftop around 164 yards away. The ex-president’s right ear was wounded.  A sniper from the Secret Service shot him and killed Crooks not a second after he opened fire.

Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh informed reporters that upon confirmation from each military service branch, the suspect’s name and date of birth do not appear in any active or reserve component database.

One of the shots fired by the criminal killed Firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was at the rally with his wife and daughter.

Trump contacted the wife of the heroic fireman who was murdered in an attempted assassination on Donald Trump on July 16th to express his sympathies, according to the grieving widow.

According to Helen Comperatore’s Facebook page, Trump was very kind and promised to keep calling her in the following days and weeks.

Helen said that God greeted her husband with open arms as he departed this earth as a hero. She stated that her husband’s death that day was not in vain.

The widow rejected a call from President Biden in the aftermath of her husband’s murder.

According to Kevin Rojek, the FBI’s special agent responsible for operations in Pittsburgh, the agency does not yet know the shooter’s motivation, but its detectives are working very hard to try to determine what it is.

According to Robert Wells, the assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, the agency is also investigating the incident as a possible act of domestic terrorism.

According to Rojek, there are no immediate threats to public safety. Subsequently, he said that authorities thought Crooks acted alone. He went on to say that they haven’t found any ideology linked to the issue just yet but that they’re still in the early stages of their study.