One of my kids was the first to bring it to my attention. “How come we know so much about this CEO-killing guy in just a few hours than we do about that guy who tried to kill Trump?” she remarked. Then, some of my colleagues pointed out the same thing. And then it went viral on social media.
There are some legitimate reasons for this—the suspected killer of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, 26-year-old Ivy-leaguer Luigi Mangione—has a social media trail, reportedly wrote a manifesto, and has relatives and past acquaintances speaking out. Thomas Matthew Crooks, however, the would-be assassin whose rifle shot came within inches of ending then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania rally in July, was more of a cipher and left less of a footprint.
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