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Thomas Crooks was acting strangely. Sometimes he danced around his bedroom late into the night. Other times, he talked to himself with his hands waving around.

These unusual behaviors intensified last summer, after he graduated with high honors from a community college. He also visited a shooting range, grew out his thin brown hair and searched online for “major depressive disorder” and “depression crisis.” His father noticed the shift — mental health problems ran in the family.

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Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana who worked on a congressional task force on the shooting, told The Times that he learned worrisome information about Mr. Crooks’s mental health while investigating the case on a trip to Pennsylvania.

He was “having conversations with someone that wasn’t there,” Mr. Higgins said, adding that many questions remained unanswered. “There was a mysteriousness to Thomas Crooks’s descent into madness.”

In the final month before the shooting, Mr. Crooks conducted more than 60 searches related to Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden, the F.B.I. said. And yet there were hints that he hadn’t fully committed to an attack.

“When can I expect the diploma to be mailed?” he wrote to his college registrar.