The man arrested in connection with what authorities called a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Sunday appeared in federal court for the first time Monday before Judge Ryon M. McCabe.
Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022.
Ryan Wesley Routh, who was identified by multiple news outlets as the man arrested Sunday, made his first court appearance at the Southern District of Florida courthouse in West Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald.
Routh, who was cuffed and wearing a beige inmate uniform, is likely to be charged by a FBI criminal complaint and affidavit, according to the Herald.
No federal court documents had been made publicly available as of 10 a.m. EDT Monday.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Sunday that a Secret Service agent saw a gun poking out of a fence at Trump’s club that afternoon and fired at a gunman, who was hiding in shrubbery ahead of where the former president was golfing. A man fled from the bushes after the shots were fired, but left behind an AK-47-style gun with a scope, two backpacks and a GoPro camera, authorities said. Whether or not the gunman fired any shots at the former president or back at Secret Service agents is still unclear. Trump was not harmed. A suspect helped police identify the car in which the suspect left the scene, and Routh was arrested soon after in Martin County, north of Palm Beach.