A deranged Florida man was arrested following an alleged attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The incident occurred outside Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, where Trump was playing a round of golf on Sunday, Sept. 15.
READ ALSO: Trump: ‘I was shot with a bullet that pierced my ear’
A Secret Service agent making his rounds at the perimeter of the golf course spotted 2 black backpacks hanging on a fence and an AR-style rifle with its muzzle poking through the fence. There was also a GoPro camera hanging on the fence.
The Secret Service agent opened fire at the fence, hitting the backpacks 4 times. There was no one else present at the scene at the time of the shooting.
Trump was tackled by Secret Service agents after the 4 shots rang out. But the shots were fired by another agent.
Trump, 78, was reportedly upset that his tee time was interrupted by the Secret Service agents. The former president was not injured during the incident.
Ryan Routh, 58, was later pulled over by Florida police officers after he fled the scene in a black Nissan SUV.
His son, Oren Routh, described him as “a loving and caring father,” and that the allegations sounded “nothing like him.”
Routh’s social media accounts were scrubbed by X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook late Sunday.
His bizarre rants portrayed a mentally unstable man who called on Republicans Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy to team up against Trump to create a “winning ticket now that we can all get behind.”
In other posts, Routh tried to recruit fighters for Ukraine and he described North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as “very smart and educated.”
Fox News’ Sean Hannity spoke to Trump after the incident at Trump International Golf Club.
“They heard pop, pop, pop, pop,” Hannity said.
“Within seconds, the Secret Service pounced on the president and covered him. You had snipers with tripods. They knew the direction where the shots had been fired, and they had eyes on the location where the shots had been fired,” Hannity added.
But the shots were fired by an agent, not by Routh.
Routh is in police custody. He will be held without bail.
The assassination attempt comes 2 months after a lone 20-year-old gunman fired 8 shots at Trump as he spoke at an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania. One bullet grazed Trump’s ear.
The gunman was shot and killed by a police sniper.
