Trump attempted assassination suspect Ryan Routh to appear in court 

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — 

The antheral accused of hiding retired with a weapon adjacent Donald Trump's Florida play people successful an evident effort to assassinate the erstwhile U.S. president is owed successful tribunal connected Monday, wherever prosecutors volition reason to support him successful jailhouse until his trial.

Ryan Routh, 58, has been charged with 2 weapon crimes aft helium allegedly pointed a firearm done the histrion enactment connected Sept. 15 portion the Republican statesmanlike campaigner was playing play astatine his people successful West Palm Beach, according to a transgression complaint. He has not yet entered a plea.

U.S. prosecutors whitethorn uncover caller details astir the probe astatine the hearing, scheduled to statesman astatine 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), arsenic they reason that Routh poses a information to nationalist information and indispensable stay detained pending trial.

Routh has been charged with possession of a firearm arsenic a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. More charges could follow.

A U.S. Secret Service cause spotted the limb and fired successful Routh's direction, causing the fishy to flee, according to the complaint. Routh was aboriginal arrested on a Florida highway. U.S. officials person said Routh did not occurrence a changeable during the brushwood astatine the play people and did not person a enactment of show to Trump, who was a fewer 100 meters away.

Authorities person not yet divulged a motive for the incident, which the FBI has said is being investigated arsenic an evident attempted assassination of Trump up of the Nov. 5 statesmanlike election.

It came astir 2 months aft different gunman wounded Trump connected the receptor during a run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania. That gunman was changeable and killed by the Secret Service. The brace of incidents revealed the agency's strains astatine a clip of rising governmental threats and unit successful the United States.

Routh, a struggling roofing contractor who astir precocious lived successful Hawaii, had a transgression history. He was a vocal protagonist of Ukraine who was interviewed astir his quixotic effort to enlistee Afghans to combat against Russia's invasion.

In a 2023 self-published book, Routh wrote that Iran was "free to assassinate Trump" for pulling the United States retired of an planetary atomic woody with Teheran during his presidency.

In December 2002, Routh was convicted successful North Carolina of possessing a limb of wide decease and destruction. He was besides convicted of possessing stolen goods successful 2010, according to tribunal records.

Cellphone information showed that Routh whitethorn person been waiting successful the country for astir 12 hours — from astir 2 a.m. until astir 1:30 p.m. - erstwhile the weapon was spotted, according to the transgression complaint. Investigators recovered a loaded SKS-style firearm with a scope, a integer camera and a integrative container with nutrient astatine the scene, according to the complaint.