This is the man who allegedly tried to kill Trump: he was convicted of weapons possession

The man arrested for the alleged attempted murder this Sunday, September 15, of the former president and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, He had been convicted more than 20 years ago for possession of a machine gunaccording to local media.

The former president suffered his second assassination attempt this summer after an individual, who was detained by the Secret Service and did not shoot the president, approached the golf course where the Republican was playing, armed with an AK-47 rifle with a telescopic sight.

The detainee is a 58-year-old man who is very active on social networks called Ryan Wesley Routh who has lived in North Carolina and Hawaii, according to local media.

In 2002according to court records accessed by several media outlets, He was convicted of possession of a weapon of mass destruction: a fully automatic machine gun.

Records also show convictions for carrying a concealed weapon, possession of stolen property and hit-and-run.

According to NBC More than 100 criminal charges have been filed against Ryan Routh in North Carolina.

The detainee’s son told CNN that It is not like his father to “do something crazy, much less violent”“I don’t know what happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion,” he told the outlet.

According to CNN, Routh was heavily involved in Ukraine’s war against Russia and visited the European country in 2022.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that what happened at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, is being investigated as an apparent “attempted murder.”

Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt on July 13 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, after a 20-year-old man shot him with a rifle, wounding him in the right ear.

The Secret Service shot and killed the attacker, who fired from a high position outside the compound, where one member of the audience died from a gunshot wound.

The incident led to numerous resignations over security failures at the event, including that of the then director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle.