Rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks may have been scoping out the site of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump six days before the Pennsylvania campaign event took place, according to federal investigators.
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Geolocation data found on a cell phone linked to Crooks, 20, showed that he could have been near the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 7, a week before the shootings that injured Trump and two rallygoers and killed local firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was shot as he tried to shield his family from the gunfire, reports The New York Times.
The FBI shared the information this week during a congressional briefing.
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