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From honour student to the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump

By Emily Cochrane, Steve Eder, William K. Rashbaum, Amy Julia Harris, Jack Healy, Glenn Thrush
New York Times·
11 mins to read

Thomas Crooks was a brainy and quiet young man who built computers and won honours at school, impressing his teachers. Then he became a would-be assassin.

For Thomas Crooks, the suburban Pittsburgh nursing home where he served meals and washed dishes for US$16 ($27) an hour was another solitary corner of a nearly invisible life. He was polite but distant, a former co-worker said, ate lunch alone in the break room and rarely spoke with anyone.

But as western

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