WATCH: Wray says Trump would-be assassin ran Google search for Lee Harvey Oswald

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency analyzed a laptop tied to the gunman who carried out the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13.

Responding to questions from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., about the agency’s investigation into the gunman’s electronic devices, Wray said a laptop tied to the 20-year-old revealed that he did a Google search for “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”

Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

In the FBI's ongoing investigation, Wray said “a lot of the usual repositories of information have not yielded anything notable in terms of motive or ideology.” Wray added that the early stages of the agency’s investigation found that the gunman appeared to be interested in public figures and that, starting somewhere around July 6, the shooter became focused on Trump and his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

On Monday, the House Oversight Committee grilled Kimberly Cheatle, director of the U.S. Secret Service at the time of the deadly shooting. Members on both sides of the aisle called for her resignation and she announced Tuesday she was stepping down. Cheatle repeatedly referred lawmakers seeking details to the investigation being carried out by the FBI.

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