Trump shooter Thomas Crooks threatened to 'shoot up' his high school and 'put bombs in the bathrooms' years before his failed assassination attempt on the former president

Thomas Crooks threatened to 'shoot up' his precocious schoolhouse erstwhile he was conscionable 15-years-old successful an incident that wasn't taken earnestly astatine nan clip but is now being probed by nan FBI, DailyMail.com tin reveal.

Federal officers connected Thursday visited Crooks's erstwhile classmate Vincent Taormina, 20, to quiz him astir nan shooter's 'hatred' of politicians and nan threats he made arsenic a freshman astatine Bethel Park High School.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com Taormina said, 'We had for illustration this anonymous spot you could station things aliases show connected personification connected our computers astatine schoolhouse and he posted thing for illustration 'Don't travel to schoolhouse tomorrow,' and thing other that made it sound for illustration he'd put bombs successful nan cafeteria bathrooms.

'Half of america conscionable didn't travel to schoolhouse nan adjacent time – I didn't. But it wasn't taken seriously.

'We each texted 1 different and it came retired beautiful quickly that it was Thomas and his friend group who'd made nan threats to sprout [the school] up.'

According to Taormina investigators were keen to perceive much astir nan threats made by nan younger Crooks successful 2019 which were not, he said, taken earnestly astatine nan time.

There is nary image of Crooks successful Bethel Park High School's 2019 yearbook and successful truth only 1 appears to person been taken during his profession astatine nan schoolhouse – nan now wide seen 2020 image which became nan first published of him pursuing his June 13 assassination attempt.

Since then, only a bladed image of Crooks, 20, has emerged from his beginnings arsenic a 'normal' small boy to nan young man who grew up to beryllium an progressively troubled loner whose net hunt history included 'major depressive disorder' and who immoderate suspected was bi-polar aliases schizophrenic.

Former classmates person described him arsenic sweet, quiet, intelligent and a 'loner' who was a spot 'off,' 

They opportunity he ate luncheon unsocial and was bullied for being awkward and 'weird.'

Madison Rudolph, 17, who was successful Crooks's machine people contempt their property quality told DailyMail.com that he was portion of a mini friend group she described arsenic 'outcasts' pinch 'strange hobbies' nan specifications of which she could not retrieve but she recalled that they wore nails arsenic accessories.

Crooks's precocious schoolhouse acquisition coincided pinch nan world pandemic and Rudolph noted that he was further ostracized for continuing to deterioration a disguise agelong aft nan mandates had been lifted and student life resumed a semblance of normalcy.

One friend recalled that during nan clip of distant learning Crooks would not put connected his camera erstwhile joining classes connected Zoom.

Crooks was not a personnel of immoderate precocious schoolhouse clubs, teams aliases groups successful stark opposition to his older sister Katie, 22, who was a celebrated and acold much outgoing student, acting arsenic some a schoolhouse custodian and a personnel of nan schoolhouse yearbook squad during her clip astatine Bethel Park High.

Crooks graduated from precocious schoolhouse successful 2022 but was listed arsenic absent from nan elder yearbook pictures arsenic he had been nan twelvemonth before.

He precocious graduated from nan Community College of Allegheny County pinch an subordinate grade successful engineering subject this outpouring and had been admitted to some nan University of Pittsburgh and Robert Morris University for nan fall.

The shooting connected Saturday, which came truthful adjacent to killing nan erstwhile president, near father-of-two retired occurrence main Corey Comperatore, 50, dormant and 2 different attendees critically injured.

Former Marine David Dutch, 57, was changeable successful nan thorax and liver and has truthful acold undergone 2 surgeries, while nan family of nan different unfortunate James Copenhaver, 74, has asked for privateness while they travel to position pinch nan 'life-altering' injuries he sustained.

So far, nary motive has emerged for nan shooting but, for Taormina, 1 imaginable logic was simply notoriety.

He said, ‘He was personification who flew nether nan radar, personification easy forgotten, group didn’t salary overmuch attraction to. 

'Maybe portion of his motive was conscionable to solidify his sanction successful nan history books because really he was a nobody.’

Investigators person revealed that they person managed to entree nan accusation stored connected some of Crooks's compartment phones which they recovered, and which contained conscionable 27 contacts.

The cells showed that Crooks visited nan Butler tract of nan rally astatine slightest doubly up of nan arena and contained photographs of Trump, Joe Biden, Fulton DA Fani Willis, Rudy Giuliani, House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and different politicians and celebrities arsenic good arsenic an unnamed personnel of nan British royal family.

On Monday FBI agents visited his home, speaking pinch Crooks's parents Matthew, 53, and Mary, 53, – some Pennsylvanian locals and some licensed counsellors – for respective minutes earlier fanning retired and moving doorway to doorway crossed nan neighborhood.

One friend told DailyMail.com: 'I fishy nan FBI person interrogated his parents very thoroughly to find retired what if thing they knew astir his authorities of mind. 

'We're conscionable struggling to understand what happened, it's truthful shocking. This is simply a organization and for this to person happened wrong it…it's almost excessively overmuch to process correct now. It's going to return a agelong time.'

According to nan friend, 'Honestly we knew him little and little nan older he got.'

But it seems he was thing if not calculated and methodical. On Friday he went to Clairton Sportsmen's Club shooting scope and practiced firing.

The adjacent morning, he went to a Home Depot and purchased a five-foot ladder – pictures obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show nan concealed spot wherever he propped this ladder against nan AGR building wall allowing him entree to nan tile crossed which he scrambled to return up position.

From nan Home Depot he went to Allegheny Arms & Gun Works, a five-minute thrust from his family home, wherever he purchased 50 rounds of ammunition.

On Monday FBI agents swarmed nan AGR building from which Crooks fired his shots. DailyMail.com witnessed respective arsenic they inspected nan roof, astatine 1 constituent 1 dropped to his belly, lying prone arsenic Crooks had done arsenic he took purpose and fired astatine Trump arsenic he addressed nan crowd.

They swept nan grounds and rooted done shrubbery and trees, and they removed nan ladder while questions proceed to rage arsenic to conscionable really connected world a lone gunman managed to put it, and himself, location successful nan first place.

Crooks was a dietary adjutant astatine Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center – wherever he provided nutrient and attraction for post-hospital aged and sick people.

The FBI has not responded to DailyMail.com’s repeated attempts to scope them by telephone and text.