What we know about the timeline of events, the suspect, the security, and the investigations.
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1:59 a.m.: Ryan Routh arrives in the vicinity of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, per investigators.
1:31 p.m.: Former President Donald Trump walks down the fifth fairway as a U.S. Secret Service agent conducts a sweep several hundred yards ahead of him. The agent spots the barrel of a rifle poking through the perimeter fence along the tree line and fires shots in that direction. The gunman is 300 to 500 yards from Trump.
A witness watches the suspect flee in a black Nissan SUV and takes photos of the vehicle, and sends this information to law enforcement.
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1:55 p.m.: The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is given a vehicle description and tag number, and goes on the lookout for the vehicle, reported to be headed north on I-95.
The witness identifies Routh as the suspect that fled the golf club.
10 a.m.: Routh makes his first court appearance at the Southern District of Florida on federal charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He does not enter a plea. A detention hearing is scheduled for Sept. 23.
- Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, is a resident of Kaaawa, Hawaii.
- Routh’s criminal record includes prior convictions in North Carolina for felony possession of a weapon of mass death and destruction (2002) and multiple counts of possession of stolen goods (2010).
- A 2019 tip to the FBI alleged that Routh was a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The tip was closed after the complainant failed to verify that they provided the initial information during a follow-up interview.
- Routh spent most of his life in North Carolina, where he ran a roofing company called United Roofing.
- He moved to Hawaii in 2018 and launched Camp Box Honolulu, a company that builds tiny houses and sheds.
Ryan Wesley Routh sticks up national flags of the countries helping Ukraine, on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 23, 2022. Sergei Supinksy/AFP via Getty Images
Pictures of evidence found at the fence of former President Donald Trump’s golf course are shown at a press conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sept. 15, 2024 following a shooting incident. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
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