STORY: :: FBI agents enter the home of the suspected gunman

who shot at Donald Trump during his Pennsylvania rally

:: July 15, 2024

:: Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

The motive of the 20-year-old suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks, remained a mystery two days later with the suspect having been shot dead and the FBI unable to identify an ideology that may have driven him to attack the former president.

The FBI has taken the lead in an investigation of the shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania that wounded the former president, overshadowing his Nov. 5 election rematch with President Joe Biden

The early details about the investigation into the suspected gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a nursing home aide, were sketchy.