New Trump assassination attempt: Authorities release latest details

yes little rules in a road like we always talk about ahead of time we are going to give you when I say we we have a representative from the FBI from the Secret Service from the state attorney's office we are going to give you everything we have everything all right so when we get done think about your questions because we're not going to take a lot and keep them to the information that you heard don't get into what ifs and because of this we're not going to go there all right so keep that in mind and we'll be good so here we go all right 1:30 this afternoon call came out shots fired that was called in by the Secret Service because we're in constant contact with them all the time we were notified of that and we had units here that immediately sealed off the area fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said hey I saw the guy running out of the bushes he jumped into a black Nissan and I took a picture of of the vehicle and the tag which was great so we had that information our real time crime Center put it out to the license plate readers and we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on I95 as it was headed into Martin County we got a hold of Martin County Sheriff's Office alerted them and they spotted the vehicle and pulled it over and detained the guy after that that we took the victim I'm sorry the witness that witnessed the incident took flew him up there and he identified as the person that he saw running out of the bushes and jumped into the car now in the bushes where this guy was is a AK-47 style rifle with a scope two backpacks which were hung on the fence that had a ceramic tile in him and a GoPro which he was going to take pictures of so those are being processed right now the secret service agent that was on the course did a fantastic job what they do is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time to where the president was at and he was able to spot this rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engage that individual at which time the individual took off so that's what we know about the investigation we have somebody in custody right now that is a potential suspect we got a little bit more to work to do on it but as we usually do as soon as we decide that we're going to book him into the county jail and the charges that he's going to be booked into we'll get those to you and we'll get a picture of them and we'll get you his background so now I'm going to turn it over to the representative of the Secret Service and he's going to make a brief statement all good afternoon everyone I first want to thank U all of our law enforcement Partners to include the uh Palm B Sheriff's Office and the Martin County Sheriff's Office for their involvement today uh former president Donald Trump is safe and unharmed uh following a protective incident shortly before 2: p.m on Sunday at Trump International Golf Club at West pal Beach uh the US Secret Service Personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line and this matter is under investigation I'll turn it over to uh my partners over at the FBI good afternoon everyone my name is Jeffrey vry I'm the special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami Field office the FBI has assumed the role as the lead federal law enforcement agency in the investigation of the incident that occurred earlier today at Trump International Golf Course here in West Palm Beach Florida we've deployed a number of resources including investigative teams crisis response team members bomb technicians and evidence response team members as well what we need right now is for the public to avoid the area around the golf course we will continue to support this investigation with the full resources of the FBI alongside our partners with the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office as well as Martin County Sheriff's Office and state and local law enforcement I would ask that if anyone has any information that may assist with this investigation to contact our tip line at 1 1800 call FBI or at tips that's tips.fbi.gov thank you I am Dave aronburg state attorney for Palm Beach County I want to thank Sheriff Bradshaw and our partners at the local state Federal levels uh I'm here because our prosecutors are currently working up warrants and a motion for pre-trial detention for the suspect uh in that way he will be kept in custody but our filing of these warrants and charges at the state level does not preclude federal charges that could be coming but in the meantime it looks like the uh the warrants and the pre-trial detention motion will happen first and again I want to thank the cooperation we've had had with our federal partners and at the local level and uh thank you all for being here today okay we're going to make these pictures available to you it'll show you a picture of the backpack and the rifle and there's also a GoPro on the fence there where he was uh intent on filming what was going on even though we're going to have to secure a couple areas around the golf course here the public doesn't need to panic we know that we got a post office a library and a school down the street so we'll make it convenient for you to get to all the places you need to go get your kids to school get them over here to the post office or wherever else you need to go it's safe there's no more danger here and we'll make it very convenient for you so having said that we're going to take a very limited amount of questions and you can direct them to who you want to answer the question Sheriff did this individual make any statements as he was being rained No statement right now as far as his involvement in the incident and uh there was further investigation to be completed there was a of your agents saw on thef course saw with okay so he saw that agent that is correct yes president for President was on the behind close it was one or two holes behind that because the bubble moves AC uh through the golf course so our agents will get there first clear it he noticed that the rifle was pointing out our agents engaged uh we are not sure right now if the individual was able to take a shot at our agents uh but for sure our agents were able to uh to engage with the uh with the subject I I I don't know that does appear so is how far away was the president how far away was Donald Trump when this gentl was caught and sto probably between three and 500 yards but with a rifle and a scope like that that's not a long distance for the Secret Service how far was your agent from the that I I I'm not I'm not sure right now that's we're still looking into that rounds all four AG that is correct four to six we're not sure yet was there a long distance explaining yes yes ma'am is there any sec I didn't hear all that say that one more time and talk up a little bit um so how was this able to happen and for future reference is there any course well you got to understand the golf course is surrounded by Shrubbery so some when somebody gets into the Shrubbery they're pretty much out of sight all right and at this level that he is at right now he's not the city president if he was we would have had this hire a golf course around it but because he's not security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible so I would imagine the next time he comes at a golf course there'll probably be a little more people around the perimeter but the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done they provided exactly what the protection should have been and their agent did a fantastic job which the layout of the golf course you got three holes five six and seven right one of them runs parallel to Summit bullevard one of them runs parallel to Congress and he was in an area in the in the Shrubbery where he could see both holes so the president was another hole back which means he's about between four and 500 yard away so he was on the golf course oh he's on the golf course yeah but he's backways for the Secret Service have you guys changed it all the way that you guys are protecting former president Donald Trump this now second potentially second attempt on him can you just elaborate on how things have changed what you made all this yes the the threat level is high uh we have increased the uh the amount of assets that we've supported so we are um we live in danger time so yes the uh n we're done with questions right now there's really nothing more forc to add I just want to tell you the Secret Service and the FBI and the state attorney's office have been fantastic to work with and I can tell you right now our agency with this realtime crime Center was fabulous that's how we got the guy we started out with we don't know anything to where we had a tag we had a vehicle description and we got a area where we saw the person so be proud be proud of your law enforcement all right thanks folks we'll get back to you she'll get the photos to you