Neighbors of Donald Trump shooter Thomas Crooks’ older sister described her as “very friendly” and “hardworking” as they described how her “skinny” brother helped her move into her apartment.
A neighbor of Katie Crooks, Thomas’ older sister, spoke about how the woman, who juggles two jobs, moved into the apartment building in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, three years ago, with the help of her brother.
Speaking to The New York PostThe anonymous neighbor said: ‘The person who helped her, I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman.
‘A couple of days later I asked him if it was one of his brothers and he said it was his brother. The one who shot Trump… He was very skinny.’
He added that Katie was a “true entrepreneur” who worked as a janitor at a local high school as well as a waitress at a restaurant.
Pictured: Katie Crooks, Thomas Crooks’ older sister. A neighbour described her as “hardworking” and “friendly”.
This 2021 photo provided by the Bethel Park School District shows student Thomas Matthew Crooks, who graduated from Bethel Park High School with the class of 2022, in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Crooks was identified by the FBI as the shooter involved in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. The 20-year-old was shot and killed at the scene by a Secret Service sniper.
Clearly exhausted, Thomas Crooks’ father, Matthew Crooks, opened the door to several FBI personnel who entered the modest brick home shortly before 10 a.m.
She was also described as a “really friendly” and “nice” girl.
“I can’t say a single bad word about her,” the neighbor added.
Like her brother, Katie is a registered Republican, but her father is a registered Libertarian.
She was also reportedly seen getting out of her red Hyundai Kona on Monday night and carrying luggage to the Crooks family home in Bethel Park.
Since Saturday’s assassination attempt, in which Thomas opened fire on former President Trump as he addressed a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas’ family has largely stayed out of the public eye.
Katie Crooks is said to work two jobs: as a janitor at a high school and as a waitress at a restaurant.
On Monday, police showed up at the Crooks family home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
FBI agents are seen knocking on the doors of all the homes surrounding the shooters’ Bethel Park home on Monday as they interview locals.
Thomas’ father, Matthew, 53, was seen for the first time on Monday since his son was shot dead by a sniper after he attempted to assassinate Trump.
He was photographed in the family’s modest three-bedroom home in Bethel Park as federal investigators visited earlier this week.
Clearly exhausted, his eyes showing the strain and trauma of the past few days, Crooks opened the door to several FBI personnel who entered the modest brick house shortly before ten o’clock.
Barely 48 hours had passed since the Crooks family’s world fell apart with the shocking events of Saturday afternoon.
Speaking to CNN immediately after his son’s identification, Matthew, who works as a licensed behavioral therapist and specializes in rehabilitation, seemed completely lost as he struggled to make sense of what he had just been told.
When contacted by the network Saturday night, he said he was still trying to figure out “what the hell is going on,” but said he would “wait until I talk to the police” before speaking about his son.
He and the rest of the shooter’s immediate family have not spoken publicly since. Crooks’ mother, Mary Elizabeth, 53, is also a behavioral therapist.
Crooks is believed to have used an AR-15 purchased by his father about six months earlier and both men are understood to have been members of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club in Clairton, Pennsylvania.
FBI agents visited with the Crooks family for a few minutes before proceeding to canvass the neighborhood talking to residents.
According to a biography of Matthew when he registered a coat of arms, he was born in Pittsburgh and his father had owned a barbershop while his mother was an accountant.
A casual turn of Trump’s head, not the snipers’ quick response, is what made the difference between a grazing glimpse of the bullet Crooks fired and a fatal shot.
He writes that he “attended local colleges” before later working in social services as a counselor, before naming his two children Katie and Tom.
Nearby neighbors were asked to leave their homes as explosives and other items were reportedly removed from both Crooks’ truck and his family home.
Crooks had parked the vehicle near the rally site in Butler on Saturday before climbing onto the roof of a nearby industrial manufacturing building.
A fortuitous turn of Trump’s head, not the quick response of nearby snipers, was the difference between a grazing glimpse of the bullet Crooks fired and a fatal shot.
Corey Comperatore, a 55-year-old father of two and a volunteer fire chief, has been named as the audience member who died shielding his family from gunfire.
Two other spectators who were hit by the impact, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, are in stable condition.
Crooks was killed by the USSS seconds after opening fire on the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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