Thomas Matthew Crooks — the would-be assassin who tried and failed to take out Donald Trump — now has an official cause of death in the books … if it wasn’t already obvious.
The Butler County Coroner tells TMZ … Crooks died from a gunshot wound to the head, and the coroner is ruling his death a homicide. Of course, he was shot and killed by a Secret Service agent after he opened fire into the crowd in Butler, PA this weekend.
While that last detail is kinda interesting — the homicide part — we’re told it’s NOT the coroner’s decision to determine whether Crooks’ shooting death was justifiable or not. All things considered … the agent who took him out was more than justified to pull the trigger.
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Remember … we got footage of Crooks firing an AR-15-style rifle from the top of a building just outside Trump’s rally … with Crooks positioned only about 130 yards away from DT.
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Crooks wounded Trump, killed one person and injured 2 others in the crowd … before snipers killed him within a minute of him opening fire … with a fatal headshot. There’s a photo floating around online that purports to show his body in the aftermath … and it certainly looks like what the coroner is telling us.
The photo in question is incredibly graphic and seems to have been taken by an official who attended to his body.
As we reported, 20-year-old Crooks also tried and failed to make his high school rifle team … getting rejected because he was a terrible shot. Although, worth noting … he’s reported to have been part of a local shooting club regardless.
Fortunately, the snipers who took him out had much better aim.