Emails and essays obtained by CBS News shed new light on Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Matthew Crooks had a lot on his mind in ... Very little is known about how or why Thomas Crooks set out to shoot then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Now, emails, essays and other ...

The assailant, who is still at large, was identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter by the state's public safety commissioner.

Thomas Crooks was talking to imaginary people, dancing alone in his room and even researched the distance for the ...

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, killed one, injured two others and shot the then-GOP presidential candidate in the ear at the event in Butler on July 13, 2024. As part of the FBI investigation into ...

Authorities were piecing together information around the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump after identifying the suspect as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks ...

A year after Thomas Crooks' assassination attempt on Donald Trump, new details reveal his efforts to acquire bomb-making materials. Crooks tried purchasing nitromethane, a volatile chemical ...

Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attempted to assassinate now-President Donald Trump in July, was in the process of designing a bomb, according to documents obtained by CBS News. Crooks, 20, ordered ...

After three days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to killing former President Donald Trump with a high-velocity bullet: He was an intelligent loner with few ...

Gotta love that order. Indeed, the look at his emails provided CBS' writers with one of those opens only a feature writer could love: Thomas Matthew Crooks had a lot on his mind in January 2024.