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  1. Just another sad, pathetic, misanthropic creature seeking notoriety through infamy as well as his own death. It’s very a familiar story. I wouldn’t be surprised if very little ends up being discovered about his motivations in terms some sort of writen diatribe or manifesto or whatever. It’s likely that he had his own internal world that he lived in and he may not have even thought much about people outside it.

  2. I saw an interview with a couple of his high school classmates and they said he was odd and the interviewer asked what he meant by odd and one of his examples was he continued to wear a mask long after everybody else had stopped which I thought was perfect.

  3. “He was funny-lookin'”
    “In which way was he funny-lookin’?”
    “He wasn’t circumcized”
    “Apart of that, was he funny-lookin’ in any other way?”
    “Oh, just in a general way”

  4. I call my big clown cat ‘Bozo’. I should stop that, because he might think I am associating him with the clown show that our government, at nearly every level, has become.

    Miracles happen; and Trump lives another day. Is he truly a ‘man of destiny’?

    We may never know, but it occurs that the kid’s Social Worker/Therapist father thought that shooting together would give the apparent lost soul some sense of empowerment. If so, I grieve for the parents along with the families who suffered great loss at his hands.

    At any rate, waiting for the ban guns rhetoric.

  5. Oldflyer:

    All parents are hostages to fate.

    The book by Dylan Klebold’s mother is truly heartbreaking, for example.

  6. There is that fake video of a man claiming to be Crooks saying, “You got the wrong guy.”

    There is also a video of a student at Arizona State throwing a fit at a table the young Republicans set out and saying that he wanted to slit all of their fascist throats, and that student is said to be Crooks. It turns out not to be, as the video is from 2020 when Crooks was still in high school. Crooks did go on to community college in Pennsylvania, not ASU.

  7. neo:

    Great article snag!

    Am I losing my google-fu? I’ve been looking for info on Crooks and not finding nearly as much as I want.

    My god. He actually purchased a ladder at Home Depot, brought it to the site and climbed up a wall to the closest roof (aside from those occupied by SS counter-snipers) with line of sight to Trump?

    But I can believe it.

    I think you nailed motive too.

  8. Who will bell that mayorkas biden none of the above. Well they did make a scapegoat of the head of the border patrol, reyes wasnt it but he was on the other

  9. I wonder if the reports that the shooter had no social media accounts is really true. I also wonder if the authorities are looking in the right place. Rather than Facebook, Twitter, and Instapundit, I’d check out discussion forums and gamer sites. Remember Jack Teixiera, the airman who posted classified documents on the gamer site Discord to impress his pals. The shooter was said to spend much of his time playing videogames.

  10. I am reposting this from a previous thread, as some may find it pertinent to this thread.

    Art Deco

    He’s a professional class youth described as ‘smart’ by classmates, but no indication he was enrolled in any of Pennsylvania’s state colleges.

    I also wondered about that. Twenty years old, apparently bright, working at a nursing home but no college attendance in his life?
    Turns out he went to a community college, and did quite well. Pittsburgh Post Gazette:More details emerge about Thomas Crooks, the Bethel Park man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump

    After high school, Crooks received an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County, graduating in May with high honors, Dena Rose Buzila, CCAC’s public relations director, said in a statement Monday. CCAC has no records relating to any disciplinary, student conduct or security-related incidents involving Crooks.
    At the community college’s south campus in West Mifflin on Monday, a faculty member who wanted only to be identified by his first name, Carlos, said he had limited interactions with Crooks. But during those few interactions, Crooks had been “nice and kind.” “He was a good student,” Carlos said.
    He never had Crooks in class, but helped him 3D-print one of his class projects.

    More information about the recluse family he belonged to:

    Sandy Kovalik lives just two doors up the road from the Crooks family house. “I always go for walks and never see anyone outside,” she said.
    Another neighbor, who only wanted to be identified by her first name Amy, said the only time she saw someone at the Crooks’ house was when someone was cutting the grass.

    The Kovalik surname rang a bell. Dan Kovalik, who has also published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is an attorney cum “human rights investigator” who has written some far-left crazy type of books.
    Such as one defending Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela. Or defending Russia in the Ukraine war. That to me is far-left crazy.

    As both Daniel Kovalik and Sandy Kovalik are in the Pittsburgh area, it is quite possible that they are related. The Kovalik surname isn’t very common.
    Given that Crooks had little interaction with his neighbors, such as Sandy Kovalik, it is not likely that there was any contact between Thomas Crooks and Daniel Kovalik, a presumed relative of Crooks’s neighbor Sandy Kovalik.
    Just one of those interesting coincidences.

  11. Also note that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had news about Crooks purchasing ammunition before the NY Post did.(July 16, 9:45 a.m.) Gunman bought ammo at Bethel Park gun store hours before deadly shooting at Trump rally, sources say (July 15 @ 2:32 p.m.)

    Kate

    Take a look at the photo in this X post, by PA politician Sean Parnell. The negligence of the security arrangements is egregious.

    Yes, indeed. The first example I saw of the unprotected roof was from a BBC interview on-the-spot on Saturday. An ordinary man in the street caught this. Doesn’t say much about the Secret Service. Or maybe it means that their Service to the country is a Secret.

  12. Gringo – There is a lot of Eastern European stock in western PA – from families whose ancestors came in the 19th and early 20th centuries to work in the steel mills. It is not at all a given that two people with the name Kovalik are closely related.

  13. That pointy chin he had was creepy. I am glad he was blown away. His parents seem like mediocrities as well.

  14. Crooks instagram account gives this address:

    16001 Anti Fascist

    He also would fit in well with antifa based on his looks.

  15. Koval means “blacksmith” and related surnames are equivalent to “Smith” in a number of Slavic languages. E.g. Stanley Kowalski. Ergo I don’t think “Kovalik” is all that uncommon.

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