Around 10 a.m. Monday morning, a few SUVs rolled up to the street where Crooks, the gunman who was killed by Secret Service snipers, lived. Several men got out of the vehicles. One was wearing a patch that said Pittsburgh Federal Bureau of Investigation, with the word SWAT also in the middle of the embroidered patch.
The FBI later confirmed in a statement that its Evidence Response Team is continuing to process the scene in Bethel Park as part of its investigation.
The investigators split up in pairs and were knocking on doors, in many cases to no avail. One pair was let into the Crooks' home and left after a few minutes.
The FBI also approached two people on their porch. They asked a few questions and left. The two people on the porch said they didn't know much about the shooter or any of the Crooks family.
"I don't feel any particular culpability to it because I live in the same neighborhood ," said neighbor Steve Riviere. "I think everybody is shocked and surprised, maybe not as surprised as we should be, but shocked that this kind of thing happened. And I think we all hope that this will be the end of it and we'll get to a position where people can have regular polite discourse about their issues rather than pulling out a gun and climbing on a roof."
Riviere said he doesn't know much, and that's what they told the feds.
According to investigators, Thomas Crooks bought 50 rounds of ammo for his gun the morning of the shooting. Crooks fired six to eight rounds with an AR-style weapon, grazing Trump's ear , killing one bystander and critically wounding two others.
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