Reports: Shooter identified in second assassination attempt on Donald Trump | National

(The Center Square) – The gunman who was arrested Sunday after allegedly carrying an AK-47-like rifle, which the FBI describes as second assassination attempt against the life of former President Donald Trump.

Various media outlets reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, that the man arrested was Ryan Wesley Routh of Hawaii.

The New York Post reported Routh “is a longtime Democrat who has donated exclusively to the party's candidates 19 times since 2019.”

The donations were small, between $1 and $25, and were made during the 2020 primary election, the Post reported, citing Federal Election Commission records. Law enforcement authorities have not yet released the suspect's name.

U.S. secret service agents shot and later arrested a man brandishing an AK-47 rifle near Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon while Trump was on the golf course. The FBI said it was investigating the incident as an attempted assassination of the former president, the second in two months.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference that the Secret Service notified local authorities that shots had been fired around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. A Secret Service agent monitoring the course one hole ahead of Trump noticed a man with a rifle pointing the muzzle through a chain-link fence near the shrubbery surrounding the course, Bradshaw said. The agent shot the suspected gunman, who was about 300 to 500 yards from the former president. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was taken back to the clubhouse in a golf cart and was unharmed.

A witness told authorities he saw the shooter run from the scene to a car and noted the car's license plate number, Bradshaw said. Officers were able to pursue the vehicle and arrest the suspect, Bradshaw said.

Authorities found the rifle, a scope, two backpacks and a GoPro camera in the bushes where the shooter was hiding.

Sunday’s incident occurred two months after Trump became the target of a Assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet in the Pennsylvania shooting just two days before the start of the Republican National Convention. The suspect in the earlier assassination attempt was shot dead at the scene.