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.

    • @piecat
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      352 months ago

      So you cut off the thumb and ship it

      Or make a casting

      There’s a million ways they could do it

      • @[email protected]
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        312 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 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
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        92 months ago

        Fuck, Fuck, FUCK!

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

      • @absquatulate
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        82 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.