According to American media, the arrested person is Ryan Wesley Routh, 58 years old. He was caught while fleeing the scene, leaving behind an AK-47. He has a criminal record and has recently launched messages in favor of Ukraine.
A 58-year-old Hawaiian citizen, identified as Ryan Wesley Routhwas arrested this Sunday on charges of attempting to murder former President Donald Trump on his golf course, as reported by US television networks CNN and Fox, as well as by the New York Times. However, the The FBI declined to comment. about the identity of the suspect, and Reuters has not been able to independently verify his identity.
The US Secret Service has confirmed that a man was arrested when he tried to flee in a black van from the area of the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, after abandoning it in some bushes. an AK-47, two backpacks and a GoPro cameraThe FBI is investigating the incident as an “attempted murder.”
According to them, the armed man was spotted by Trump’s security agents and they opened fire on him. The alleged attacker ran from some bushes where he was hiding, to the vehicle in which he tried to escape, a black van whose license plate a witness was able to photograph.
According to court documents accessed by various media, Wesley was convicted in 2002 for illegal possession of a machine gun. fully automatic. Records also show convictions for carrying a concealed weapon, possession of stolen property and hit-and-runs. According to NBC, more than 100 criminal charges have been filed against Ryan Routh in North Carolina, where he apparently lived for a time.
According to CNN, that was the alleged attacker closely involved in the Ukrainian war against Russia and visited the European country in 2022.
Reuters found Wesley’s profiles on X, Facebook and Linkedin. The social network X then removed his profile, arguing that it violated the terms of use.
According to the published reports, Wesley was very active on social media. On April 21, he sent a message to Elon Musk, in which he wrote: “I would like to buy you a rocket. I want to load it with a nuclear warhead so that Putin’s mansion bunker in the Black Sea can shoot it down. Please give me a price?”
For its part, the New York Times reported that he interviewed Routh in 2023 for an article about Americans volunteering to help the Ukrainian war effort. Routh told the Times that he had traveled to Ukraine and spent several months there in 2022 and that he was trying to recruit Afghan soldiers who had fled the Taliban to fight in Ukraine.
As he himself announced, In 2016 he voted for Trump in the presidential election and in 2020 he maintained his support for the Republicans. He also mocked Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe.”
The inmate’s son told CNN that it’s not his father’s intention to “do something crazy and much less violent.” “I don’t know what happened in Florida, and I hope things are just exaggerated,” he assured the newspaper.
Source: EITB
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