USA – FBI investigators said Monday that they have gained entry to the cell phone of the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a weekend campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

An FBI technical specialist gained access to the contents of suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone, allowing investigators to analyze the contents of the device as they focused on search for a motive for the shooting that left one rallygoer dead and two others wounded, an FBI official said. Investigators did not immediately say if the analysis of the phone being conducted at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, yielded any clues on what drove the suspect to commit such a brazen attempt on Trump’s life.

FBI officials also said a search of the suspect’s vehicle and home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about 53 miles south of where Saturday’s campaign event occurred in Butler Township, has been completed. ABC News learned that on the day of the shooting, Crooks told his father he wanted to go to a shooting range and asked if he could borrow his dad’s AR15-style rifle, said a source familiar with the matter. Since the father had occasionally allowed Crooks to go target shooting with the semiautomatic firearm, he didn’t think anything was suspicious when he let him use the rifle again on Saturday, the source said. (ABC news)…[+]