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Investigators are working to break into the phone of the man who shot former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The shooting is being investigated as an attempted murder.
The FBI said in a statement who obtained the shooter’s phone “for examination.” Officials told reporters in a conference call on Sunday, as reported by The New York Times, that agents in Pennsylvania were unable to break into the phone. He was sent to the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI hopes to bypass the phone’s password protection, the Times reported.
Investigators are still seeking to learn the motives of Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who they identified as the shooter. Kevin Rojek, the FBI special agent in charge in Pittsburgh, told Times and other media outlets that the agency has access to some of Crooks’ text messages, but has not shed much light on his beliefs.
