Is an attempt by former president donald trump. 130 this afternoon, called the melt charts are holding by the secret service in the bushes work this guy was, is an ak47, style rifle with a scope. And to backpacks which were high events that had ceramic tile with a minute gopro the secret service agent that was did a fantastic job when they do is, they have an agent that jumps ahead of time with the president was out. And he was able to buy the rifle barrel sticking out of the fence immediately agent with that in and defend individual at individual took up. Present donald trump is even well after being targeted were golfing at the trump international golf club and the suspected comments was pulled over by martin county police, where he was taken into custody. Also that of the same or shots were fired, weapons, hanging on event and this comes just over two months of the former president survived a first assassination attempt during his rally in butler, pennsylvania, and 20 is now to disc
Ayman mohyeldin. And i am ali velshi. We are continuing our coverage of the reported gunfire and your president donald trump today in florida. We are learning details about what the fbi is now calling an apparent attempted assassination of the former president s golf course in west palm beach. Florida police can now identify the man who shot. The individual s name, ryan wesley routh, born february 18th, 1966, according to three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The suspect is in custody. A short while ago, the west palm beach sheriff s office describe the scene where they found him. No, in the bushes where this guy was is an ak47 style rifle with a scope, two backpacks, which were hung on the fence, that had ceramic tile in them, and a gopro, which he was going to take pictures with point it is shortly after the incident, the trump campaign issued a statement saying that donald trump is safe and unharmed. Abc is reporting that he departed maralago shortly after th
Everyone tv on the edge premieres next sunday at nine on cnn so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean and we begin with breaking news. Former President Donald Trump is safe after a Shooting Incident near the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, florida, the Martin County Sheriffs Office saying they have stopped a vehicle and taken a suspect into custody. We know a gun an Ak47 Style Weapon has been recovered near that scene as well. Now we are standing by for a Press Conference from police and the Secret Service, which we are expecting in the next halfhour. Lets begin though with cnns Kristen Holmes kristen, tell us the latest what youre hearing right now. Right, jessica. So what were told us this afternoon when Donald Trump was on the Golf Course at West Palm Beach, that its Trump International Golf Course. He was inbetween holes when shots were fired we are told by sources that Secret Service fired shots. And as you noted, a person has now been detained. There was a long
Call came out, shots fired. That was called by the Secret Service because were in constant contact with them all the time. We were notified and we had units hear that immediately seal off the area fortunately, we are 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 a vehicle and the tank, which was great. So we had that information. Our realtime Crime Center put it out to the License Plate readers and we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on i95 as it was headed at the Martin County we got to hold a Martin County Sheriffs Office first alerted them and they spotted the vehicle and pulled it over and detain the guy after that, we took the victim. Im sorry. Witnessed that witnessed the incident, took flew them up there and he identified as the person that he saw running out of the bushes at jumped into the car now in the bushes were this guy was is ak47 Style Rifle with a scope two back
Well be good. 1 30 this afternoon, a call of shots fired. Because were in constant contact of them at all times. We were notified of that and we had units here that immediately sealed off the area. Fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said hey, i saw the guy running out tof the bushes. He jumped into a black nissan and i took a picture of the vehicle and the tag. Which was great. So, we had that information. Our realtime crime center put it out to the License Plate readers. And we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on i95 as it was headed into Martin County. We got a hold of Martin County Sheriffs Office and they spotted the vehicle and pulled it out and detained the guy. After that we took the victim, im sorry the witness the witness that witnessed the incident. Flew him up there tnand he identified the person that he saw running out of the bushes that jumped into the car. Now in the bushes where this guy was is an Ak47 Style Rifle with a scope. Two bac