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On Sept. 15, 2024, authorities apprehended a man in the vicinity of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, in what they are calling an apparent assassination attempt on former U.S.
President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who was playing on the golf course. A Secret Service agent walking ahead of Trump noticed a rifle barrel "poking out of the tree line," Markenzy Lapointe, U.S.
attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said at a news conference the following day. He was located closest to the sixth hole as Trump was moving towards the fifth, said Ron Rowe, acting director of the Secret Service, in the same news conference. The agent fired towards the rifle, prompting a man to run to a black Nissan SUV, a witness reported.
The former president was not in the man's line of sight, and the man did not fire any shots when he was fired at, Rowe said. A witness was able to take a photograph of the vehicle, whose license plate was registered to a 2012 Ford truck that had been reported stolen, officials said. Forty-five minutes later on the Interstate 95, authorities arrested Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old resident of Hawaii who had been convicted in North Carolina in 2002 for possession of a weapon of mass death and destruction.
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