Why Do We Still Know So Little About Thomas Matthew Crooks?

The Butler shooter vs. the CEO shooter.

I tried to learn a little bit about Thomas Matthew Crooks in the days after the attempted shooting of then-candidate, now-President-elect Trump, and while I gleaned some basic crap that was publicly available, it wasn’t much. That was in July. It’s now January, and in reality, the public does not know much more about this kid than it did in July. One parallel you will hear sometimes in casual conversation is that we know almost nothing about a guy who missed a President by two inches, but we know seemingly a lot about Luigi Mangione, even though he tried to go off the grid for six months before (probably) shooting a CEO in the back.

Why would that be?

The Basic Logic