Reuters. Police bodycam video released on Monday (September 16) showed law enforcement taking into custody the man suspected of firing gunshots near Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's golf course over the weekend.
Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in bushes near the property line of the golf course on Sunday (September 15), a few hundred yards from where Trump was playing, law enforcement officials said.
The suspect, identified on Monday as Ryan Routh, 58, fled in a vehicle but was arrested about 40 minutes later driving north on Interstate 95. The license plate on his vehicle had been reported stolen from another car.
Records show a phone associated with Routh was located at the golf course starting at 1:59 a.m. (0559 GMT) on Sunday morning, 11-1/2 hours before the incident.
Routh left an AK-47-style assault rifle and other items at the scene.
Trump's visit to his golf course in West Palm Beach was not on his public schedule, acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe told reporters on Monday afternoon, and it was not clear whether Routh knew Trump would be there.
The suspect never had the Republican presidential candidate for the Nov. 5 election in his line of sight and did not fire any shots. But the incident raised questions about how an armed man was able to get so close to Trump, just two months after another gunman grazed his ear with a bullet during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
