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Posted: 2024-09-16T04:03:59Z | Updated: 2024-09-16T04:03:59Z

Authorities identified the suspect behind an apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump as Ryan Routh, a 58-year-old who lived in Hawaii, according to multiple reports Sunday night.

Secret Service agents tasked with protecting Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, said they fired shots toward an armed man Sunday afternoon. Trump was on the course when agents spotted a person hiding in the bushes and the muzzle of an AK-style weapon sticking through the greenery several hundred yards from where Trump was playing, local authorities said.

An agent fired toward the man, who dropped his weapon and fled in an SUV, authorities said. He was apprehended in a neighboring county and taken into custody.

Multiple outlets identified the suspected gunman as Routh, citing anonymous officials. The Associated Press reports he lived in North Carolina before moving to Kaaawa, Hawaii, in 2018, where he and his son ran a company that built sheds.