Ryan Wesley Routh was charged with two gun crimes on Monday after attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump.
According to Reuters, Routh appeared in a federal court where he was charged for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
The average sentencing for felons caught in possession of a firearm was 64 months as of 2018, per United States Sentencing Commission, and the U.S. Department of Justice noted that knowingly possessing a firearm which lacks a serial number is “punishable by up to 5 or 10 years imprisonment.”
Independent journalist Kyle Becker posted court documents regarding the assassination attempt and Routh’s charges to X.
The criminal complaint reported that Routh hid in the woods near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for about 12 hours. It also detailed that a 1940s “Soviet-era semiautomatic weapon” was found at the scene, along with food and a camera after a witness reported seeing the suspect flee the location in a Nissan SUV.
Routh was apprehended approximately 45 minutes later by law enforcement along I-95.
RSBN reported that after the second assassination attempt in less than two months, Trump issued a statement boldly declaring, “There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL!”
“Nothing will slow me down. I will NEVER SURRENDER!” he concluded.