Shooter who tried to kill Trump Googled JFK assassination, FBI chief says

The FBI director told the House judiciary committee that the shooter who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump just 11 days ago searched online for information about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy.

Christopher Wray is currently testifying before the committee on Capitol Hill, at the House of Representatives, where the Republicans are in the majority.

Wray told the lawmakers that the man who tried to kill Donald Trump, the former president, earlier this month used the internet to research how Lee Harvey Oswald killed the former US president.

Wray said that starting around 6 July this year, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter who fired at Trump, injuring his ear during a campaign event in Pennsylvania, “became very focused on President Trump and his rally” and conducted a Google search that asked: “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”

Crooks was killed by government snipers on 13 July after he fired eight shots from an assault rifle, hitting Trump, killing a rally attendee and injuring others, aiming from a rooftop some distance away.

Oswald shot Kennedy in November 1963, by firing from a book depository overlooking a road in Dallas, Texas, as the-then president’s motorcade passed by.