The suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Trump laughed and smiled ahead of his first court appearance in Florida on Monday, FOX News confirmed.
Ryan Wesley Routh, wearing jail scrubs and shackles on his wrists and ankles, walked into court and smiled and laughed about three to four times as he was speaking to his court-appointed attorney before the hearing began, FOX News observed. No cameras were permitted inside the federal court hearing regarding charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Routh appeared fully engaged and answered all the questions from the judge during the about 10-minute-long hearing Monday. He will be formally arraigned on Sept. 30.
FOX is told additional federal charges are possible. The initial charges announced Monday will keep Routh in custody.
The moment that deputies arrested a suspect in an attempted assassination of former President Trump in Florida was captured on officer-worn bodycam video that was released Monday afternoon.
Ryan Routh, 58, was captured Sunday on northbound Interstate 95 after deputies surrounded his vehicle, Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder said during a press briefing Monday.
The sheriff’s office released the footage, which shows deputies ordering the driver to slowly walk backwards with his hands on his head toward deputies after surrendering.
Snyder told reporters that Routh was caught near Palm City exit 714 on I-95, and it took authorities about two miles to get all the resources in play to surround the vehicle and force it to a stop.
“He was smart, he was just driving with the flow of traffic,” the sheriff said. “I think that he may have thought that he got away with it.”
Routh appeared for a federal court hearing in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday morning, where he was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
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