(15 Jul 2024)
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Bethel Park, Pennsylvania – 15 July 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"Reporter: When you saw the photo of him, did you immediately recognize him?
Campbell: Yeah, immediately. I like all the yearbook photos and everything. I knew who he was.
Reporter: And your reaction when you saw that?
Campbell: I was I was shocked because knowing that he lived so close to me that he did something like that. It’s just it’s it’s shocking."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"No, honestly, I didn’t ever expect that."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"I’ve only seen him on the bus and he just kept to himself. No one talked to him. Everybody left him alone. Because if we didn’t feel a need to talk to him, if he wasn’t going to talk to us."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"I’ve never seen, the only times I’ve ever seen him as him walking around the neighborhood."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"Like he sat by himself. Didn’t talk to anyone, like didn’t even try to make conversation. So it was just kind of odd. He was an odd kid, but I didn’t, like, have any issues with him or anything."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"He was just. He was just quiet, and I’ve never noticed anything off. I mean, he was just a normal kid to me, walking around the neighborhood. I mean, he was just a bit odd. That’s all."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"No, he would just. It’s like a normal person. I mean, he’s just, like, just a normal person who seemed like he didn’t like talking to people."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"The only thing that was odd was that he kept to himself, like he didn’t talk to people much, which I found odd because I like to talk to people and I like to make conversation. But not everyone does. He, like, kept to himself."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Liam Campbell, Thomas Matthew Crooks neighbor:
"It’s just strange, honestly, because it all came out of nowhere."
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STORYLINE:
The FBI is still trying to determine a motive behind Saturday’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump, while the tone of this week’s Republican convention in Milwaukee likely will be dominated by the violence.
Officials say Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania — about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the shooting — came to law enforcement attention when spectators at the Trump rally noticed him acting strangely outside the event.
"I’ve only seen him on the bus and he just kept to himself. No one talked to him. Everybody left him alone. Because if we didn’t feel a need to talk to him, if he wasn’t going to talk to us," said Liam Campbell, Thomas’s Matthew Crooks neighbor.
"The only thing that was odd was that he kept to himself, like he didn’t talk to people much, which I found odd because I like to talk to people and I like to make conversation. But not everyone does. He, like, kept to himself," said Campbell.
Police had a report of a suspicious man pacing near the magnetometers and were apparently exchanging photos of the suspect. Witnesses pointed and shouted at an armed man on a nearby roof.
AP video by David Martin
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