FBI says it still can't determine motive for Trump shooting

More than a month and a half after Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper just seconds after he shot former President Donald Trump and three rallygoers from a rooftop near a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI says it is no closer to figuring out the shooter's motive.

The FBI said as much in a briefing with reporters and also said there was no evidence of a conspiracy involving anyone else.

"At this time, the FBI has not identified a motive, nor any coconspirators or associates of Crooks with advance knowledge of the attack. And I want to be clear, we have not seen any indication to suggest Crooks was directed by a foreign entity to conduct the attack," FBI Assistant Director Robert Wells said.

Crooks was tracking both President Joe Biden and Trump and looked at multiple events the two were attending before zeroing in on the Butler rally.

"He looked at any number of events or targets. And then, when the Trump rally was announced early in July, he became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity," FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek said.

Responding to criticism that the bureau wasn't conducting a thorough investigation, Rojek said, "To date, we've conducted nearly 1,000 interviews, served numerous search warrants, issued dozens of subpoenas, and analyzed hundreds of hours of video footage."