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The FBI says it has cracked into the phone belonging to the suspected shooter in the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
“FBI technical specialists successfully gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone, and they continue to analyze his electronic devices,” the bureau said in a statement posted Monday afternoon.
The bureau did not specify the brand of the phone, how it was locked or how they broke into it. Officials had told reporters Sunday that Crooks’ phone had been shipped to the bureau’s lab in Quantico, Virginia.
As tech news site 404 Media noted Monday, U.S. law enforcement agencies have access to technology that can break into password-protected iPhones. Those capabilities became more widespread after Apple refused to help unlock the phone of the gunman in the 2015 San Bernardino, California, mass shooting.
Crooks, a 20-year-old resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by Secret Service agents on a rooftop hundreds of feet away from Trump as the former president spoke Saturday at a campaign rally in nearby Butler County.
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