FBI agents told reporters on Monday that Thomas Crooks was interested in 'science' and 'experiments,' therefore, his family didn't find his many packages suspicious.
The FBI told reporters on Monday that would-be presidential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had a long-standing 'interest in science' and 'experiments,' and as a result, his family 'wasn't concerned' about the myriad packages he was receiving at their house. Crooks, 20, made 25 gun-related purchases online between spring 2023 and the first half of this year and bought materials used to make explosives six times, all with aliases, according to the agency.
The FBI said Crooks' 'primary social circle his family.' 'We have identified only a couple people who we would call his friends, and most of those contacts were in fact dated,' Rojek said. 'Even his gaming platforms, we see very little interaction with other individuals, which is obviously outside the norm with what you normally see, particularly in gamers. To date, we have not found anyone that is really close to him in any type of social circle.
Crooks had made online searches related to power plants, mass shooting events, information on improvised explosive devices, U.S. elected officials and the attempted assassination of the Slovakian prime minister earlier this year, agents said.
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