Although there is no official confirmation of the identity of the suspect in the shooting incident, American media outlets such as the New York Times and Fox News indicated that his name is Ryan Wesley Routh.
Roth’s son, Oran, told media that he was not immediately able to speak to his father or obtain information about the charges against him, but described his father as “passionate” about the Ukrainian issue.
Oran explained that the position Trump from Russian-Ukrainian war He was making his father angry, according to the British newspaper, The Guardian.
Trump has previously stressed on more than one occasion his desire to end the ongoing war between Moscow And Kiev, without specifying his desire for Ukraine’s victory.
In an interview with CNN, Oran Roth described Ryan as a “loving, caring father” and an “honest, hard-working man.”
“I don’t know what happened,” Oran added. Florida“I hope things are being blown out of proportion, because it doesn’t seem to me that the man I know would be capable of doing anything crazy, let alone something so violent.”
During an interview with the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, Oran said that his father hates Trump, “as every sane person does,” as he put it.
The son explained that his father’s security record is clean, as his violations are limited to traffic matters only.
And announced FBI The FBI said Sunday that the shooting at Trump’s golf course “appears to be an assassination attempt” on the Republican presidential candidate.
At a news conference with the Palm Beach County sheriff, a representative of the Secret Service and the FBI, officials confirmed that the suspect in the attack had a “Kalashnikov“And he was carrying a GoPro camera, apparently to document the incident.
The suspect was hiding in bushes on the field, and Trump was 300 to 500 meters away from him.
The officers engaged the gunman and fired at least four magazines of ammunition.
The gunman then dropped his rifle, two backpacks and other items and fled in his black car.
Authorities sent an alert to devices across the state with the vehicle’s data.
Martin County Sheriff’s deputies were able to stop and arrest the suspect on I-95.
