Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe following an incident on Sunday in which two people exchanged gunfire outside his Florida golf club, according to law enforcement authorities, Cape {town} Etc reports.
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‘Sources said that Trump was never in danger,’ the New York Post reports.
Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign spokesperson, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The Associated Press reports that the individual who aimed the firearm and was apprehended is Ryan Wesley Routh.
The authorities named the suspect to The Associated Press under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak about the current investigation.
According to an archived version of the company’s webpage, Routh (58), spent the majority of his life in North Carolina until coming to Kaaawa, Hawaii, in 2018 to run a shed-building company with his son.
Police officials said a the suspect displayed a ‘AK-style’ firearm at a golf club where former President Donald Trump was present.
The US Secret Service agents replied by firing at the man, causing him to drop his weapon and flee the scene in a sports utility vehicle.
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After a brief pursuit, police apprehended the suspect in an adjacent county.
There were no injuries reported during the event, but a ‘AK-style’ firearm was later discovered abandoned near the golf course.
This incident happened just two months after another assassination attempt at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump was injured before what appears to be a hotly contested 5 November election in which he will face Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
The first shooting of a US president or major party presidential candidate in more than four decades was a flagrant security violation that prompted Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service director, to quit under bipartisan congressional pressure.
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