Targeted in a second Assassination Attempt, nearly two months to the day since the July 13th shooting in butler. The Wouldbe Assassin is in custody and were learning more about his past political statements and runins with the police. You are watching fox and friends first, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. Major questions. How is a gunman able to get this close to a former president for a second time. We are now 50 days from the election. We have Madeleine Rivera live in washington, former fbi Special Agent Jonathan Gilliam standing by to walks through the investigation. Carley Brooke Singman has new information from overnight. Brooke former President Trump is safe following a second Assassination Attempt in West Palm Beach yesterday. This photo shows ryan Wesley Routh, moments after his arrest. A florida officer on the scene spoke about this. Kind of detached, flat, facial affect, it was not bothering him. Blue lights, helicopter overhead, never said why did i get stopped. Brooke
And late information here good Afternoon Everybody on Martha Mccallum and this is The Story. Here we go again it is astounding that we are now covering a second Assassination Attempt on the former President Of The United States. The suspect Ryan Routh may have been at that scene for as long as 12 hours. Lying in wait essentially before the Secret Service spotted his Rifle Poking out through the trees. On the sixth hole of the trump international Golf Course. Is the former president was on the fifth hole, this individual police believe was positioned to be there when he got closer and closer into the range of shooting. So as we look at that image, you can see he was in an area that was close to a road and this all appears to be very carefully calculated in terms of this timing. Heres the new elite released police got a Body Cam Video at that Moment Routh was apprehended. This is astonishing itself thanks to an eyewitness and a secret Service Agent who spotted that gun. This is what happ
reporter: the video shows a tense standoff in which his wife can be heard shouting at the police as his wife has a tbi, a traumatic brain injury, which he suffered from last year that left him disabled. police maintain they were looking for someone else with an outstanding warrant at the apartment complex september 20th when they noticed scott sitting in his suv. the video shows scott exiting his vehicle and ignoring officers commands to drop his weapon. the police just shot my daddy both times for being black. reporter: in a facebook live video that circulated widely after the shooting, scott s daughter who said she did not see the shooting, said her father was reading a book when he was shot and accused police of targeting him because of his race and of planting evidence. wednesday, the district attorney pointed at this photo investigators believe shows the gun poking through his pant leg
that her husband that s a tbi or traumatic brain injury he suffered from a near death motorcycle crash last year that left him disabled. they were look forg someone wels an outstanding warrant when they noticed scott sitting in the suv. scott exiting his vehicle and ignoring officers commands to drop his weapon. the police just shot my daddy four times for being black. reporter: faced with livid yes that circulated widely after the shooting, scott s daughter who said she didn t see the shooting said her father was reading a book and accused police of targeting him because of his race. wednesday the district attorney pointed at this photo investigators believe the photo shows the gun poking from his ankle before the shooting. dna was found on the grip of the weapon found at the scene. mr. scott s gun, a colt 380 semi-automatic was recovered at the scene. it had one round in the chamber,