Florida Files Charges Against Alleged Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh

Florida is continuing to fight the federal government’s efforts to halt the state’s own independent investigation into what happened in West Palm Beach.
Florida Files Charges Against Alleged Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody in a file photograph. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
|Updated:

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody obtained an arrest warrant for Ryan Routh, the alleged would-be assassin of then-former President Donald Trump, now the present-elect, charging him with the attempted felony murder of a 6-year-old girl.

The federal government has been trying to prevent the state from conducting an independent investigation into the alleged assassination attempt in West Palm Beach until after the federal investigation and prosecution has concluded.

Google LogoMark Us Preferred on Google
T.J. Muscaro
T.J. Muscaro
Author
T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.