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US election: Trump’s shooter identified as 20-year-old Thomas Cooks

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The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday has been identified, according to the New York Post.

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He has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

One of Crooks’ bullets at Bethel Park grazed the former President in the ear during an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.

Sources told the New York Post that Crooks was planted on a roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.

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Cooks was shot dead by Secret Service snipers and an AR-style rifle recovered from him.

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Bethel Park is a village 40 miles south of where the Butler rally was held.

Meanwhile, it remains unclear as to why Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump, who is the presidential candidate of the Republican party.

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