Trump shooter Thomas Crooks' parents unlikely to face criminal charges, experts say
Pennsylvania parents were not alarmed by son's online purchases related to firearms and chemicals, FBI said
By Audrey Conklin Fox News
Published July 30, 2024 4:00am EDT
Questions about whether the parents of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks could face charges resulting from their son's shooting crimes have arisen as officials release more information about his secluded personality and lack of a social life.
"You'd have to prove in some way beyond a reasonable doubt that [Crooks' parents] aided and abetted his ability to plan this attempted assassination or, in some way, knew what he was doing and provided him some means to do it," Pennsylvania-based attorney Matthew Mangino of Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly and George told Fox News Digital. "That would be difficult to prove, I would think, beyond a reasonable doubt."
Mangino added, however, that "civil liability is a completely different story."
Pursuing civil action against Crooks' parents would require "a preponderance of the evidence that … they could have or should have intervened to protect, not only the former president, but the public," as well as the victim who died.
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