Sheriff recall’s Trump assassination attempt suspect’s behavior during arrest, ‘very poised’
The man accused of the second alleged assassination attempt on former President Trump was “poised” and composed when law enforcement officers closed in on him, signaling that he knew “the gig was up,” the Florida sheriff who arrested him revealed.
In an interview on “America Reports” Monday, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder
praised law enforcement and credited a civilian bystander for turning over a photograph of the Black Nissan that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh used to flee.
Minutes earlier, Secret Service agents had fired shots in Routh’s direction when they spotted him poking a rifle through the fence around Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., where the former president was playing a round of golf.
“The coordination between the Palm Beach County’s sheriff’s office which gave us the information and my road patrol deputies was flawless,” Snyder said. “Had it not been for a civilian witness who did the right thing, gave us a description and a picture of it, actually, and had the Palm Beach sheriff’s office not been so good about getting that information out, that guy would’ve gotten past us and who knows what would’ve happened next.”
Snyder described a “very tense” few minutes before authorities were able to track down the purported would-be assassin. Despite the 30 rifles drawn at him and helicopters overhead, Routh appeared oddly unbothered when law enforcement closed in, Snyder recalled.
“Right after the stop, what I saw was someone who was very poised, very in control of himself. Even though we had armed deputies all over the place, probably 30 deputies out there, rifles, a helicopter overhead, both north and southbound on I-95 shut down. He’s in the middle of it all, he never asked ‘Hey, what’s this about? When I saw that, I realized he knew what time it was,” Snyder said.
“He knew that the gig was up, and he was caught.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Yael Halon
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