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Trump assassination attempt: Thomas Crooks surveyed grounds, used drone with law enforcement in position
BUTLER, Pa. – The man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump and successfully killed one of his supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, scoped out the sight of the July 13 rally while local law enforcement officers were in position.
A detailed timeline and accompanying text messages, obtained by Fox News Digital from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who obtained them from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU), provided additional details that led to Thomas Matthew Crooks’ successfully setting up his AR-styled rifle and opening fire.
According to a timeline released by the Beaver County ESU, local law enforcement officers were in their pre-determined places at 10:15 a.m. and local snipers were in place by 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 13.
Images of the Beaver County ESU showed the sniper’s positioning among the buildings at the Butler Farm Show grounds.
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A photo of Thomas Matthew Crooks that local law enforcement circulated the day of the shooting, July 13, 2024. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
A map detailing the locations of interest pertaining to the investigation of Thomas Crooks’ attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (Provided by Senator Chuck Grassley )
Emerging details of Crooks’ whereabouts prior to the shooting placed the 20-year-old surveying the scene at the same time local law enforcement officers and local snipers were in position.
The FBI previously revealed that Crooks, at 11 a.m. on July 13, had driven to the rally site and spent an hour there before heading home.
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A Beaver or Butler County sniper position is in place at the rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. The former president was shot in an assassination attempt at the rally. (Provided by Senator Chuck Grassley )
Crooks did not return to the scene until 3:50 p.m. Local law enforcement officers, in their designated positions, spotted him for the first time around 5:10 p.m. — approximately 50 minutes before Trump took the stage, according to documents provided by Grassley’s office.
On his return to the rally site, Crooks flew a drone about 200 yards away from where Trump was going to be speaking, according to the FBI.
The FBI later said that no photos or videos were taken from the drone and that the agency found no memory card in the drone.
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An evidence photo shows the bicycle and backpack left by Thomas Crooks before his attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (Provided by Senator Chuck Grassley )
At 5:30 p.m., local law enforcement snapped a picture of Crooks and escalated it to command.
“Kid learning around building we are in,” an officer wrote in a text message, along with an image of Crooks. “AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out.”
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“I lost sight of him,” the officer added.
Law enforcement circulated a picture of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the texts showed. (Fox News)
A follow-up message said: “Call it in to command and have a uniform check it out.”
By 6:12 p.m., the “kid” would be killed by a counter-sniper after he opened fired on the rallygoers.
Trump was grazed by a bullet on his ear, while three rallygoers were also shot, including Corey Comperatore, 50, who was killed protecting his family from danger.
James Copenhaver and David Dutch were shot and injured at the rally by Thomas Matthew Crooks on July 13. (Allegheny Health Network)
David Dutch and James Copenhaver were injured after being shot at the rally. They have both since returned home.
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The U.S. produces over a billion pounds of cheese monthly, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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You might not give a lot of thought to your two license plates. Maybe only looking at them when you renew your registration or when you got the new pine tree design. But those plates play an important role on the road.
Karyn asked the CBS13 I-Team:
“I see a lot of cars on the road with only a rear license plate. We are issued two plates at the time of registration. Do we actually have to display both on our car? Also, can you be fined for only having one plate?”
Maine law does require drivers to display two license plates. One on the front and one on the back.
The state says that requirement, which has been in place since the 90s, makes cars more visible to law enforcement and helps with automated tolling on the Maine Turnpike.
A driver can be fined if they don’t properly display both plates.
According to state data, convictions for improperly displaying a registration plate have gone up the past few years. Though the numbers are still small compared to the total number of vehicles on the road.
In 2021, there were 63. Seventy convictions in 2022 and in 2023 and 2024, there were around 140.
The are some exemptions to the two-plate law. That includes motorcycles and trailers.
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The Maine Legislature has debated bills that would remove the front plate requirement in the past, but none have passed.
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Can I hear just a few positive things in 2026? Amanda Gutierres of the new women’s soccer team, Boston Legacy FC, at Gillette Stadium. Boston Legacy
For one year — just one year! — What if we all tried to be Mass. boosters, rather than Mass. criticizers, Mass. fault-finders or plain old Massholes?
What if we made that a New Year’s Resolution that we actually stick with until December?
If you’re a resident of Massachusetts, you can undoubtedly add to this list of problems that our state has: high taxes, pricey housing, unreliable public transit, bad traffic, cold weather, elected officials emitting hot air and residents voting with their feet by moving.
But if there was ever a year to look at the Dunkin’ cup as half full, I’d argue that 2026 is it.
A partial list of good stuff we could be bragging about would include:
• An NFL team that won its first playoff game with a quarterback who could be the season’s MVP, and an NBA team that surprisingly has a solid chance of making it to the playoffs.
• Boston is continuing to get better at enjoying winter, with Frostival and Winteractive. A Ferris wheel on the Greenway? A “street snowboarding” contest on City Hall Plaza? I’ll be there!
• The inaugural season of Boston Legacy FC, our new National Women’s Soccer League team, opens in March.
• Seven FIFA World Cup games will be held in Foxborough in June.
• Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July and other Revolutionary happenings throughout the year.
• Later in July, a fleet of tall ships from around the world arrives in Boston Harbor for Sail Boston.
• Worcester and Auburn are getting ready to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern rocketry, with Robert Goddard’s early tests in 1926. In other nerdy news, the MIT Museum has plans to mark the 50th birthday of the biotech industry in Cambridge. Just two of many major industries born in Massachusetts.
Most residents of other states would view two or three of those things as opportunities to boast or back-pat.
They’d invite friends and relatives from all over to come for a visit, and see it as an opportunity to show off their state’s positives — or at least to appreciate the work it took to bring these things together in a single year.
Maybe we should, too.
Traffic will be bad at times. Hotel and Airbnb prices will skyrocket.
And you could live up to the stereotype by bemoaning that. Or you could see 2026 as a pretty great year to live in Massachusetts.
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