Possessing a semy automatic rifle. The individual s name is ryan wesley routh. Age 58 according to senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The suspect is in custody. A short while ago the palm beach county described the scene where they found him. Now in the bushes where this guy was, is an ak47 style rifle, two backpacks which were honed on the fence that had ceramic tile in them and a go pro which he was going the take pictures of. Reporter: they later released these images on what they found on the suspect. That backpack, the go pro camera and an ak47. Wesley routh lives in hawaii but previously lived in greensboro, north carolina. Some of his previous facebooks and linked inaccounts have been identified. We re checking in with you pretty regularly as we learn more about the suspect. We now have learned a little bit more about his background. His criminal record, social media profile. Give us the composite of what we re learning about who this man is in the early hou
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
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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 were in constant contact with them all the time, we were notified of that and we 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 sent that up to the Licence Plate readers, and we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on i95 as it was heading into Martin County. We got a hold of Martin County, Sheriffs Office, alerted them, and they spotted the vehicle and they spotted the vehicle and pulled it over. And detained the guy. After that we took the victim, im sorry, the witness, that witnessed The Incident, took, flew him up there, and he iden
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