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WASHINGTON — Police noticed the Pennsylvania man who tried to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump more than an hour before the July 13 shooting, an FBI official said on Monday.
A local police officer identified the shooter about an hour before Trump spoke that day and took a photo, the official said.
Trump has agreed to sit for a standard victim's interview, which "will be consistent with any victim interview we do," Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Pittsburgh field office, said during a media briefing with reporters.
"We want to get his perspective," Rojek said.
During Monday's briefing, FBI officials said they had yet to identify a motive for Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who was shot dead by a Secret Service agent after opening fire.
But the agency said he had conducted online searches into prior mass shooting events, improvised explosive devices and the attempted assassination of the Slovakian prime minister in May.
