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Thomas Matthew Crooks tested his shooting prowess at a western Pennsylvania gun range just weeks before last Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Trump, according to a report.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Bill Jenkins said he practiced his firearms skills immediately next to Crooks at the Keystone Shooting Center in Cranberry on June 22 – mere weeks before the July 13 attack, The Sun reported.
“I was sitting next to evil,” Jenkins told the outlet. “I haven’t been able to sleep thinking about it.”
Jenkins, who said he has been interviewed by the FBI, recalled the class instructor extolling Trump during the session – a glorification that may have contributed to Crooks’ determination to carry out the plot.
Crooks brought his own 9mm handgun to class and dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, the outlet reported.
The long-haired gunman said little but was polite throughout, Jenkins recalled.
After yet another accurate target strike, Jenkins lauded his younger counterpart.
“I congratulated him on how good he’d done, and he just laughed,” Jenkins said.
Investigators have yet to reveal a motive for the assassination attempt and are continuing to comb through Crooks’ background.