Shooter flew drone 200 yards from site hours before shooting
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, flew a drone about 200 yards from the rally venue, and had it up in the air for about 11 minutes, just hours before the shooting, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The drone -- which was recovered in the shooter’s car -- was flown at about 3:50 p.m., he said.
"Let me be clear about the area -- not over the stage, and that part of the area itself, but, I would say, about 200 yards, give or take, away," he said. "And that we think, but we do not know. So again, this is one of these things that's qualified because of our ongoing review."
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Wray confirmed two explosive devices were recovered in Crooks’ car and one was recovered in his home.
Wray called them "relatively crude devices," but he added, "they did have the ability to be detonated remotely."
Crooks had a transmitter with him when he was killed by law enforcement.
Wray said that based on the positioning of the on and off switch on the devices, "if he had tried to detonate those devices from the roof, it would not have worked."
"But that doesn't mean the explosives weren't dangerous," he added.
-ABC News’ Luke Barr