Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe following an incident on Sunday in which two people exchanged gunfire outside his Florida golf club, according to law enforcement authorities, Cape {town} Etc reports.
Sources said that Trump was never in danger, the New York Post reports.
Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign spokesperson, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The Associated Press reports that the individual who aimed the firearm and was apprehended is Ryan Wesley Routh. The authorities named the suspect to The Associated Press under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak about the current investigation. According to an archived version of the companys webpage, Routh, 58, spent the majority of his life in North Carolina until coming to Kaaawa, Hawaii, in 2018 to run a shed-building company with his son. police officials said a the suspect displayed a AK-style firearm at a golf club where former President Donald Trump was present.
The US Secret Service agents replied by firing at the man, causing him to drop his weapon and flee the scene in a sports utility vehicle.
