Federal investigators are analyzing device’s content, although it is unclear how agency gained access

Federal investigators are analyzing device’s content, although it is unclear how agency gained access

The FBI has gained access to the phone of the suspected gunman who opened fire on Donald Trump’s rally and is analyzing the device’s contents, the agency stated in a press release on Monday afternoon. The shooting, which killed one audience member and left Trump bleeding from one ear, is being investigated as an assassination attempt.

Authorities have been working to determine the motive behind the attack at Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday, but no clear picture has yet emerged. The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks by the FBI, was shot and killed in the incident.

Federal investigators announced on Sunday that they had obtained Crooks’s cellphone, but had issues with bypassing its password protections to access the data within. FBI investigators then shipped the phone to a lab in Virginia, where agents successfully gained access, per the bureau’s press release.

  • Jimmybander
    41•2 months ago

    I wonder if they stuck his thumb on there. He is dead after all.

    • tiredofsametab
      18•2 months ago

      I get the feeling I’m the only person who doesn’t use fingerprint readers (due to this and just some bad experiences with them not working right in their earlier days on phones).

      • catloafEnglish
        6•2 months ago

        I also don’t, but I’m also not planning on committing crime.

      • PsychedSy
        2•2 months ago

        I use them but know I can restart my phone to force a full login. Usually throwing it does the job.

    • catloafEnglish
      13•2 months ago

      It says they had to send the phone to a lab in Virginia, so obviously not.

      • piecat
        35•2 months ago

        So you cut off the thumb and ship it

        Or make a casting

        There’s a million ways they could do it

        • RvTV95XBeo
          31•2 months ago

          Or you load the whole body into your passenger seat and drive it over there. Bonus points that this approach lets you use the carpool lane.

          • uhmbah
            2•2 months ago

            “We could call the cops, Richard, but you know where we’d be spending our weekend. In some… goddamned hot police station answering questions we don’t know the answers to.”

        • andrew_bidlaw
          9•2 months ago

          Fuck, Fuck, FUCK!

          Screams the agent as heating up a frozen finger with a lighter put it on fire.

        • absquatulate
          8•2 months ago

          Walter:
          You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.

          The Dude:
          Yeah, but Walter…

          Walter:
          Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish.