In which the former president says that comment from Donald Trump and we have had more since then in which he has reassured people and told people he will keep fighting. An image of the moment when Security Services surrounded the suspect has been released. We can show you that now. He was detained in Martin County by the Sheriffs Office on the northbound area of Interstate 95 following an alert which told officers to be on the lookout for this vehicle seen leaving the Golf Course in Palm Beach County. Us media have named him as Ryan Routh, a 58 year old from hawaii. And there are more details emerging about the suspect, including reports that he was deeply involved in efforts to get foreign fighters into ukraine to battle against the russian army. Bbc verify has been looking into his background and posts. More details on that on the bbc news website. The bbc verify team have a post up and running if youre interested in that particular angle of the story. But lets look at what happened
In what could have huge implications for the club. It lastly dry and pleasantly warm weekend ahead. I will have all the details right here on breakfast. Good morning. Its monday the 16th of september. Our main sTory the us Secret Service has thwarted a suspected Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump while he was playing golf at his resort in florida. The former president was rushed To safety when agents spotted an Assault Rifle aimed Towards the course. A suspect has been arrested. In a statement, Mr Trump said he was safe and well, but this appears To have been the second attempt on his life in a matter of months. Graham satchell reports. Its blocked. They blocked it off. The I 95 in florida, and pictures Taken by a Passing MoTorist show a large number of police surrounding a vehicle. Law enforcement officers have just detained a man suspected of attempting To assassinate Donald Trump. He was driving the black car seen here at the side of the road. The former president was playing gol
President donald trump. Lots of details coming to us in the past few hours about what happened but shots were fired quite close to the former president. He was playing golf with a friend at one of his golf clubs and there were shots fired. This is at a palm beach golf course and we had a news conference room at secret service officers saying that they were ahead of the president and they spotted an ak47 president and they spotted an ak 47 rifle poking up out of the bushes and then they took aim at that suspect. The president was some way back, the former president, at the time, obviously the attacker then dropped the weapon and tried to get away in a car and rather remarkably, lots of praise for a witness who actually saw this happen and took a photo of the suspect and his car stop he was then pursued by the local police and stopped and we have had just from us media confirmation of the name of the suspect. He is ryan ralph, a 58 year old man from hawaii. Quite quickly after this happe
In the last few minutes we received a still of the moment when Security Services surrounded the suspect. The Martin County Sheriffs Office detained the suspect on the northbound area of interstate 95. The Sheriffs Department said in a Facebook Post that it stopped a vehicle based on an alert to Be On The Lookout from Palm Beach county, and it shared photos of the detainment. Let us listen again to the joint Presser Given by us Law Enforcement officials involved in The Incident and investigation. At 1 30pm, a call come out shots fired called in by the Secret Service. Because we are in constant contact with them all the time, we were notified of that and we had units that immediately sealed up the area. Fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said, hey, i saw the guy running out of the bushes, he jumped into a black nissan and i took a picture of the vehicle and the tag, which was great. We had that information. Our real time crime centre put it out to the Licenc
Playing golf. This is at one of his Golf Courses near Palm Beach in florida. Its understood what happened was that the fbi, not the fbi, the Secret Service were there at the time, of course the trouble with him at all times, there is a heightened sense of security around Donald Trump at the moment after that previous Assassination Attempt. They were ahead of him on the Golf Course and they spotted a Gun Barrel poking out from the bushes just ahead of where he was playing, that alerted them to where the suspect was, there were gunshots then, when they opened fire on the suspect, he then fled the scene in a car. A Witness Saw the man flee in a Black Nissan which was later pulled over by a sheriff and the suspect arrested. It was incredible that witness had the wherewithal to not only take a photograph of the car, but to note the Registration Number as well and it really helped the police when they were trying to track down the suspect. Four things spiralled Out Of Control as Donald Trump