Gunman Never Fired Or Had Trump Within His View

The New York Times reports:

Investigators say the man who appeared to have been planning to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump with a rifle waited near a golf course for about 12 hours before he was spotted by the Secret Service. According to a criminal complaint released Monday, the man faces two federal gun charges: possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

The defendant, Ryan W. Routh, 58, did not have Mr. Trump in his sightline and did not fire his semiautomatic rifle during the confrontation with the Secret Service on Sunday afternoon, the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe, said at a news conference. The F.B.I.’s top agent in Miami said the bureau had no information that Mr. Routh had been working with anybody else.

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A Secret Service agent “immediately discharged his firearm” after seeing the suspect for the alleged Trump assassination attempt, who was on the public side of a fence at Trump’s Florida golf course, authorities say.

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