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Jameson Myers, who said he attended both elementary and high school with the suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks, spoke to ABC News after the shooting, which left one rallygoer dead and two others injured.
Myers told ABC News Crooks had tried to join their high school’s rifle team, but was rejected and told not to try out again.
“He didn’t just not make the team, he was asked not to come back because how bad of a shot he was, it was considered like, dangerous,” Myers said.
The FBI confirmed Crook’s identity to Business Insider early on Sunday morning.
Crooks was a dietary aide at the Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, the center said in a statement obtained by The Hill on Sunday. His motives for the attack are, at press time, unclear.
Outside school, Crooks was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, a club with multiple pistol and rifle ranges in Clairton, Pennsylvania, CBS News reported.
He had used an AR-style 5.56 rifle that was legally purchased to shoot Trump and the spectator, FBI Pittsburgh Office Director Kevin Rojek said in a call with reporters on Sunday.
Trump was seen ducking for cover after gunshots rang out at his Saturday rally. Photographers later captured snapshots of Trump as he stood and pumped his fist at the crowd in defiance, with streaks of blood on his face.
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