Overview

• The clips were reportedly posted online by Crooks before the July 2024 Butler rally shooting and later scraped, according to Owens’ podcast and subsequent reports.
• Footage shows a handgun on a bed, Crooks taking a tactical stance, and dry-firing toward an off-camera target, with a second clip filmed in front of a sheet of target paper.
• The material aligns with FBI findings that Crooks researched assassinations, including a July 6, 2024 query on how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from President Kennedy.
• Owens also shared excerpts of Crooks’ alleged searches and comments about mass shootings, explosives, and violent rhetoric, which match prior reporting on his digital footprint.
• Authorities have said Crooks grazed the president’s ear and killed attendee Corey Comperatore before being fatally shot, and the FBI reported his final phone search was for pornography.