Footage has surfaced exhibiting Thomas Matthew Crooks being bullied in highschool. As The Shade Room beforehand reported, Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump on Saturday, July 13.

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Footage Surfaces Of Thomas Matthew Crooks In High School

According to TMZ, footage captured “a few years ago” of Crooks whereas he was in highschool surfaced on-line on Monday, July 15. As The Shade Room beforehand reported, Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022.

In the resurfaced footage, Crooks is seen sitting at a college desk sporting a crimson and blue sweater, blue denims, and blue sneakers. The arm of one other pupil sitting in entrance of him is seen pulling on the cuff of his denims.

“Stop,” Crook repeatedly says earlier than later including. “You’re pulling my leg.”

In the video, Crooks doesn’t seem like explicitly distressed however appears to be making an attempt to calmly quell the disturbance. As the footage performs, laughs will be heard within the background.

Check out the footage under.

Former Classmates Of The Suspected Gunman Spoke On His Character

The resurfaced footage of Crooks seems to verify some accounts not too long ago shared in regards to the 20-year-old by his former highschool classmates. As The Shade Room beforehand reported, Jason Koehler described Crooks as somebody who “was bullied almost every day.”

“I mean, he would sit alone at lunch. I mean, he was just an outcast, and you know how kids are nowadays — so they’re gon’ see someone like that, and they’re gonna target him because they think it’s funny or whatever… and it’s honestly kind of sad,” Koehler not too long ago instructed NBC News. “I don’t want to say this is what provoked it, but you never know.”

Koehler added that Crooks was largely bullied because of the military-style clothes he wore to highschool. Despite this, classmates Jameson Myers and Summer Barkley appeared “shocked” by Crooks’ assassination try on Donald Trump.

“I never have thought him capable of anything I’ve seen him do in the last few days,” Myers reportedly instructed CBS News.

More Footage Surfaces Of The Suspect In High School As Questions Remain

The footage of Crooks being bullied at Bethel Park High School isn’t the one clip that’s surfaced of him as a pupil. On Sunday, July 14, commentator Vince Dao took to X, previously referred to as Twitter, to share footage of an commercial for BlackRock.

The commercial was reportedly produced in 2022, per CBS News. The outlet provides that the corporate is “the world’s largest asset manager.” Furthermore, the advert that featured Crooks was “part of a series aimed at teachers managing their retirement assets.”