A Florida sheriff who arrested a suspect in a second assassination attempt on former President Trump said investigators were looking into whether the man was involved in a broader plot.
“I think what we're finding is he's not from this area, and of course that raises the larger question of how a guy who's not from here could get to Trump International and have access to a rifle in that vicinity where the president, the former president of the United States, is playing golf,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters on Monday, a day after the shooting in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“I think that's the question that the FBI and the Secret Service are concentrating on right now: Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Is he acting alone?” Snyder continued, adding that if the suspect is part of a broader conspiracy, “this whole case takes on a very, very sinister air.”
The Hill has reached out to the FBI and Secret Service for comment.
The suspect arrested in connection to the assassination attempt, Ryan Wesley Routh, has reportedly lived in North Carolina and Hawaii and has no known ties to Martin County, the sheriff's office said Monday.
Authorities have not identified any other suspects.
Routh was arrested Sunday and charged with federal gun offenses. He appeared in court Monday and was charged with possessing a firearm while a convicted felony and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Authorities said former President Trump was at a golf course on Sunday when Secret Service agents found guns around the course. A Secret Service agent opened fire and the suspect fled before being arrested.
