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The suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of former US president Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida’s West Palm Beach is 58-year-old Ryan Routh, according to federal officials.
Routh was taken into custody by police on Sunday after what the FBI has called a possible assassination attempt targeting Trump.
Earlier, the Secret Service said its agents were accompanying Trump on the golf course, when one who was securing holes ahead of Trump spotted a gun barrel in some bushes near the property line.
Multiple agents engaged the gunman and fired at least four rounds at him. The gunman then dropped his AK-47 style rifle, two backpacks, a Go Pro camera and other items and fled in a black Nissan car.

Palm Beach County sheriff Ric Bradshaw said a witness managed to take a photo of the suspected gunman’s car and number plate and gave it to authorities.
Shortly after, sheriff’s deputies in neighbouring Martin County stopped the suspect on Interstate 95 and took him into custody.
Routh was born in 1966 and has been living in Hawaii, CNN reported. He has eight arrests on his record for minor offences and at one point was working as a construction worker in North Carolina, according to the news network.
An account on the X social media platform purported to be Routh’s had a large number of posts condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including messages calling for foreign soldiers to defend Ukraine, according to CNN. The profile has since been suspended.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that the paper had interviewed Routh in 2023 for an article about Americans volunteering to aid the war effort in Ukraine.
Routh had no military experience and claimed that he had travelled to the country himself in 2022 to recruit Afghan soldiers to fight there, according to the newspaper.




CNN said that authorities were looking into Routh’s background to try to determine what his motives might have been.
In 2020, Routh made a social media post backing Trump’s re-election, but in more recent years his posts have expressed support for US President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the 2024 election Democratic nominee.
Earlier this year, Routh tagged Biden in a post on X: “@POTUS Your campaign should be called something like KADAF. Keep America democratic and free. Trumps should be MASA … make Americans slaves again master. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose.”
The suspected gunman’s son, Adam, reached by Reuters at the hardware store where he works in Hawaii, said he had not yet heard of the newest Trump assassination attempt and had “no information”, adding it was not something he believed his father would do.

Later, the reporter called back to the store and a colleague said Adam had gone home because of an emergency.
Another son of Routh’s, Oran, told CNN in a statement that “I don’t have any comment beyond a character profile of him as a loving and caring father … I don’t know what’s happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion”.
The apparent attempt on Trump’s life came just two months after he was shot at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, sustaining a minor injury to his right ear.
Both incidents highlight the challenges of keeping presidential candidates safe in a hotly contested and polarised campaign with just over seven weeks to go before the November 5 election.
It was not clear if or how the suspect knew Trump was playing golf at the time, but the attempted attack was sure to raise new questions about the level of protection he is given.
Additional reporting by Associated Press and Reuters


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An undated selfie of suspect Ryan Routh. Photo: Social media via Reuters

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Authorities are investigating suspect’s motives after shots were fired near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida


Authorities are investigating suspect’s motives after shots were fired near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
