Trump shooter mobile tracking data shows devices travel to Washington, D.C., Massachusetts

Mobile device data linked to the home and work addresses of the gunman who tried to kill former President Donald Trump shows the devices also visited Washington, D.C., Plymouth, Massachusetts, and a Pennsylvania gun store where the shooter bought ammunition.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project obtained mobile ad tracking data to analyze the location data of at least nine devices that regularly visited the Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, home and workplace of potential Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks over the past year.

An analysis of mobile ad location data conducted by the Oversight Project found that an individual who regularly visited the Crooks’ home and their workplace at a local nursing home also visited the Gallery Place shopping center in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2023.

According to data from the Oversight Project, the tracked device indicates a location just a block away from the U.S. Secret Service headquarters and near an FBI office building.

Another device the organization says is “linked to Crooks” arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in early March of this year on a flight from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Logan Airport in Boston.

Another device linked to a local nursing home where Crooks, 20, worked as a dietary aide at the time of the shooting shows travel records from Bethel Park to Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 4 and 8 — the site of a Trump rally where an attempted bombing took place just a week later, on July 13.

According to the Oversight Project, the device ceased all location tracking activity on July 12.

Another device linked to the scammers visited Allegheny Arms & Gun Works on August 30, 2023.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the shooter purchased 50 rounds of ammunition at a Bethel Park gun store on the day of the shooting, just hours before the former president’s July 13 rally in Butler.

Just a week before the shooting, Crooks reportedly searched the internet for information about a previous mass shooter, the date of the Democratic National Convention and other information about Trump, President Joe Biden and other political figures.

The 20-year-old apparently had no social media or internet presence before the attack, nor did he publish a manifesto or other political texts indicating any ideological motives behind the shooting, as previous mass shooters have done.

Crooks’ motive for the shooting remains unknown, and the FBI is still investigating the shooting.