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The FBI got into the Trump rally shooter’s phone in just 40 minutes

The shooter reportedly had a newer Samsung phone.

The FBI used an unreleased tool from the Israeli mobile forensics company Cellebrite to unlock the Trump rally shooter’s phone — and opened it in less than an hour, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Washington Post. Investigators at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office first tried to open Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone with a Cellebrite tool but weren’t able to break into it. The phone was sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia on Sunday, where agents called Cellebrite’s federal team, people familiar with the investigation told Bloomberg.

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