(DailyChive.com) – FBI Director Christopher Wray told media that the family of the shooter who attempted to kill former President Donald Trump on July 13 owned 14 different firearms which they kept at their home in Pennsylvania. Wray also said that the suspect’s father had sold him the weapon he used in the attack. The shooter has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks and no motive for the attack has been revealed.
Wray told members of the House Judiciary Committee that they determined there were 14 firearms at the home. He also told Congress that the gun used in the attack was legally purchased and then legally resold to Crooks by his father. Both parents have been cooperating with investigators.
Wray said that Crooks was a fan of shooting and explained that a remote explosive device was found in his car along with a bulletproof vest.
The attack resulted in the death of one rally goer, Corey Comperatore, a retired volunteer fire captain. Wray said that no manifesto or other written indication of motive has been discovered.
He added that the FBI has performed over 400 interviews and said normally these details wouldn’t be available to the public, but given the nature of the crime and public interest, he was attempting to be as candid as possible.
Wray came under intense scrutiny after he suggested something other than a bullet had hit Trump’s ear on July 13. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) slammed Wray’s testimony suggesting that his briefing on the assassination attempt included information that said Trump was shot and advised Wray to update his testimony accordingly.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) is a former White House physician who corrected the record with a public memo stating that the shooter fired multiple rounds, one of which hit Trump in the ear. He said his experience, training, exposure to similar wounds all indicate that Trump was hit with a bullet, not a fragment, or shrapnel, as has been allegedly by Wray during his testimony. He called Wray’s suggestion “wrong and inappropriate.”
Just days after his appearance in Congress, the FBI published an official statement suggesting Trump had been hit in the ear with a bullet “whole or fragmented” which originated from the suspect’s weapon.
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