Overview

• The footage shows Crooks displaying a handgun on a bed, assuming a shooting stance, and dry-firing at an off-camera target in his bedroom, with a second clip filmed in front of target paper.
• The clips are undated and were published on Owens’ podcast, which said they were scraped from Crooks’ online accounts after the July 2024 attack.
• Investigators had previously detailed Crooks’ searches on assassinations and explosives, including a July 6, 2024 query asking how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from President Kennedy.
• The FBI has said Crooks’ final online activity before he was killed was a pornography search on an encrypted Samsung phone, and that he used aliases to purchase firearms beginning in 2023.
• During the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, Crooks’ gunfire grazed Trump and killed attendee Corey Comperatore before security fatally shot the attacker.