 What an ordeal to be three feet away, she says, from those bullets ripping by. Thomas Matthew Crooks, he's the 20-year-old who was identified as a shooter. Reports say that he was a loner in high school, a guy who had very few friends, also didn't have much of a social presence. So authorities are trying to figure out what the motivations are. I can't imagine what his family's going through right now. My heart really goes out to them. You know, he was bullied in school, they said.