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
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