 And he committed this horrible act. And he may or may not have talked to anybody. Crooks is from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He was a registered Republican who would have been eligible to vote for the first time this year. He had no known history of mental illness. Crooks worked in a nursing home as a dietary aid and graduated high school in 2022, where students say he was smart, liked computers, and was a loner.