“We’ve discovered the topic was extremely smart, attended faculty and maintained regular employment,” Rojek mentioned. “His major social circle seems to be restricted to his quick household as we imagine he had few mates and acquaintances.”
The FBI officers mentioned Crooks’s mother and father have mentioned that they had no advance data of their son’s plot. “We do discover that to be credible at this stage,” Rojek mentioned.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifying earlier than a congressional committee final week, mentioned Crooks had searched on-line for particulars in regards to the November 1963 taking pictures of US President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
“On July 6, he did a Google seek for, quote, ‘How distant was Oswald from Kennedy?'” Wray mentioned.
Rojek mentioned the investigation has revealed that Crooks “additionally made searches associated to energy crops, mass taking pictures occasions, data on improvised explosive gadgets and the tried assassination of the Slovakian prime minister earlier this yr.”
