Trump’s young shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks spotted in 2022 advertisement for asset manager BlackRock, now pulled — BlackRock is a major investor in gun companies, including Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brand (the owner of Smith & Wesson)

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1. BlackRock pulled the advertisement that featured an honors economics class two years ago, after the film was surfaced by others.

   [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/blackrock-says-suspect-trump-rally-appeared-2022-ad-2024-07-15): “In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Matthew Crooks.”

   [CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/business/blackrock-commercial-included-trump-shooter/index.html): BlackRock is a major investor in gun companies, including Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brand, the owner of Smith & Wesson. In quarterly earnings reported Monday, the world’s largest money manager said its assets under management had swollen to a record $10.6 trillion.

2. I don’t understand what pointing this out is supposed to mean. High school kid is in ad filmed at high school.