‘Anti-Trump gunman ambushes police’ in shoot-out at president’s Florida golf resort before being arrested
Jonathan Oddi, 42, draped an American flag over a counter at the Trump National Doral Golf Club before firing into walls and chandeliers and attacking police, authorities said
Gunfire erupted early Friday at US President Donald Trump’s Miami-area golf resort, as a man shouting anti-Trump rhetoric draped a flag over a lobby counter and exchanged fire with officers in what one official called an “ambush” before being arrested, police said.
One officer broke an arm and the suspect was wounded by gunfire in the incident, which began around 1.30am at the Trump National Doral Golf Club. Trump was not at the resort at the time.
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“We don’t know what his intentions were in the long term, but we know what he was doing at the time – he was trying to engage our police officers in some kind of ambush-type attack,” Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez said.
In plotting the ambush, Perez added, “He did succeed and he did lose.”
One responding officer broke a wrist, but no resort employees or guests were hurt.
Perez identified the suspect as Jonathan Oddi, 42, of Doral. Oddi was born in South Africa and became an American citizen in August 2017, The Miami Herald reported.
