At the moment when Ryan Routh, the suspect in the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, is arrested, he captures videos released by the American authorities.

@cnn The Martin County Sheriff’s Office released video footage of the arrest of Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump. #cnn #news ♬ original sound – CNN

The images were captured by a camera worn by a police officer.

Ryan Ruth, 58, was arrested on Sunday while trying to elude arrest, with video showing the moment officers surrounded his vehicle.

According to information, the suspect was near the scene of the incident, at the golf course, for about 12 hours before he was located by the FBI.

The officers then order the driver to walk slowly backwards with his hands on his head towards them after he surrenders.

The suspect was arraigned today in federal court, where he was charged with two felonies related to gun possession.

He is likely to face other charges, but this first charge (of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number) allows authorities to hold him in custody while the investigation continues. These two charges carry sentences of 15 and 5 years respectively.

Who is Ryan Ruth

Influential activist, idealist or fanatic? Ryan Routh appears to be something of all three, given the trajectory of his life leading up to his arrest Sunday in Florida on suspicion of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump.

A photo released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office shows the 58-year-old American with his blond hair uncombed and his hands cuffed behind his back. In another photo, the rumpled T-shirt he’s wearing is pulled up on his chest, his sunglasses slid down the end of his nose. He is thin and wrinkles his eyes.

The former builder seems to have been exuding a strong need to take action, and in 2022, after the Russian invasion, he went to Ukraine. Agence France-Presse had interviewed him there, coincidentally, at a Ukrainian solidarity rally in the capital, Kiev. “Putin is a terrorist,” Ruth, who had painted the Ukrainian flag on his cheek, said at the time. “Everybody on the planet should stop what they’re doing and come here and support Ukraine,” he said.

Ryan Wesley Ruth is being prosecuted in Florida only for illegal gun possession – for now, as the investigation into his attempted assassination of Trump continues. She allegedly tried to shoot him while hiding in bushes on a golf course.

This was not the first time Ruth had run afoul of the authorities. He was arrested in 2002 after a traffic control. At the time, he had attempted to escape and barricaded himself, armed, in a local store. Since the 90s, he had been involved in various criminal cases, while he had not paid his taxes for years.

He was a regular user of social networking sites and in June 2020 tweeted a message in which he appeared to regret voting for Trump in 2016 and revealed his “great disappointment”. “I will be happy when you are no longer there,” he wrote at the time.

At the same time, in a 300-page self-published book entitled “The Lost War”, he presented his ideas on various major topics: “The Fatal Flaw of Democracy”, “The Abandonment of the World and the Global Citizen”, “The third world war and the end of humanity”. On his pages he talks about Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea.

He revealed to a New York Times reporter who interviewed him in March 2023 that he had a strange plan to help Kiev: to recruit Afghans and send these ex-soldiers, who had fled the Taliban, to fight in Ukraine. He even compiled a list of hundreds of names.

In an undated selfie, possibly from the same era, he is pictured with a three-day beard, an American flag draped around his neck and what appears to be a bulletproof vest. The American flag also appears sewn into his other clothes: a tag on a T-shirt or a tracksuit, next to another tag with the Ukrainian flag.

After working in North Carolina, he settled in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, where he founded a small company, Camp Box Honolulu. He built wooden houses and warehouses. The local newspaper Star-Advertiser reports in a 2019 article that he had offered one of these houses to the homeless.