CNN reports:
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former president was headed on September 15.
Routh, allegedly “stalked” Trump in Florida for more than a month, prosecutors told a federal magistrate judge on Monday, with cell phone data allegedly placing Routh at the golf course as well as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence across several days between August 18 and the day Routh was arrested.
Routh was originally charged with two gun-related offenses, including obliteration of a firearm’s serial number and possessing a firearm while a convicted felon, while the investigation continued.
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Also today Routh’s son was arrested on child porn charges.
Wow: the man charged with attempted assassination of Trump at his Florida golf course has case assigned to Judge Cannon https://t.co/uBIdFwwDfd
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 24, 2024
During a search of a Guilford County, N.C. home, authorities uncovered “hundreds” of child pornography files linked to Ryan Routh’s son.
Read more here: https://t.co/YOrE9WFXat#RyanRouth #Son pic.twitter.com/xWdmWKDQBl
— MSN (@MSN) September 24, 2024
ALERT: Oran Routh — the son of the man suspected in apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last week — has been arrested in North Carolina
State drug charges *and* federal child exploitative images charges
Charging docs say the feds searched Oran's home Saturday… pic.twitter.com/fZvbuVW6FQ
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 24, 2024