Thomas Crooksthe man who tried to kill the former president and Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, used a drone to obtain aerial images of the rally grounds before the event began last Saturday, according to ‘The Wall Street Journal’ this Friday.

The Journal, citing security officials briefed on the matter, says Crooks used the drone with a “programmed flight path” about the area where the event was to be held in Butler, Pennsylvania, hours before and that the route suggests that He flew the device more than once.

The information that reflects the significant security flaws in the organization The details of the political meeting are added to other details of the attack that have been leaked in dribs and drabs while the FBI leads the main investigation into the two big unknowns of the attack: what motivated Crooks to shoot Trump and how he did it.

Following a meeting between members of the FBI and the Secret Service with congressmen on Wednesday, details have emerged about the search history on the attacker’s devices, which included Trump and the president, Joe Bidenand the upcoming public interventions of the two, among other things.

According to CNN, investigators also found a photo on his phone of Ethan Crumbley, the underage shooter in a Michigan school shooting in 2021 that left four students dead and seven injured, and information about his parents, who were convicted of manslaughter.

On the day of the attack, according to ‘ABC’, Secret Service snipers spotted Crooks on the roof of the building from which he fired 20 minutes before he did so.and security forces had identified him as a person of interest an hour earlier and even observed him using a rangefinder.

Crooks, 20, was killed by snipers seconds after he shot Trump as he spoke on stage; the former president escaped unharmed with only a wound to his right ear, while one member of the audience was killed and two others were seriously injured. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is scheduled to testify before a US congressional committee on Monday.