Alert maralago after an apparent Assassination Attempt on former president Donald Trump. He is home tonight unharmed but no less than a Dozen Police cars are visible at the resort and an Investigation Led by the fbi is underway after the Secret Service fired on an armed man while trump was on the course just a few hundred feet away. One person is in Law Enforcement Custody identified as ryan wellesley ralph, age 58 according to senior law and officials briefed on the matter. President biden, Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Walz are all expressing relief that trump is safe and Mike Johnson posted just last hour on Social Media calling him strong and resilient. Lets start at West Palm Beach were nbc News Correspondent Kathy Park is standing by. Describe the scene for us. What is the latest . Good evening. We are right in front of the Golf Course right now and i can tell you the security here has not let up. Earlier today we heard Law Enforcement really crediting the quick actions of
Can tell you the security has not let up. Earlier today, we heard Law Enforcementda crediting the qui actions of Aed Witness Who Spotd the suspect right away, before 2 00 this afternoon when the incident played out. Officials are saying that this Witness Saw the man jump out from thema brush, the shrubbery that surrounding this Golf Course and was quick to actually write down the License Plate Number of the suspects getaway vehicle. It was a black nissan, and this witness not yet identified, apparently shared the information with local Law Enforcement Rightwi away. Andri thats where local Law Enforcement on the ground was able to track down the suspect along thedo interstate. But thee interstate, as you ca imagine was pretty chaotic. Even getting to this location today, they were blocking off different ramps and roadways surrounding the Golf Course as the investigation pressed ahead but they wereat able to get the suspect. We heard earlier that this individual was pretty compliant and
HavIng CeramIc TIles on them, and a Go Pro, whIch he was goIng to take pIctures of. Those would be a process rIght now to stop the secret ServIce Agent that was on the course dId a fantastIcjob. What they do Is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of tIme where the presIdent was at. He was able to spot thIs rIghtful stIckIng out of the fence and ImmedIately engage that IndIvIdual, at whIch tIme the IndIvIdual, at whIch tIme the IndIvIdual took off. That Is what we know about the InvestIgatIon. We have somebody InvestIgatIon. We have somebody In custody rIght now that Is a potentIal suspect. We have a lIttle bIt more work to do on It, but as we usually do, as soon as we decIde we are goIng to book In the countyjaIl and the charges he wIll be put Into It, we wIll get those to you and we wIll get a PIcture Of hIm and we wIll get you hIs background. I wIll doubt character wIth a representatIve of the Secret ServIce and he wIll make a brIef statement. Good afternoon. IfIrst wIll mak
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