Man opens fire at Trump s Miami golf resort
Friday - May 18, 2018 8:40 pm ,
Category : WORLD
Washington May 18 (IANS) A man yelling "anti-President Donald Trump rhetoric" was arrested on Friday after he exchanged fire with police in the lobby of the Trump National Doral Miami resort.
The suspect identified as 42-year-old Jonathan Oddi was yelling about Trump when Miami-Dade and City of Doral police officers responded to the scene a police spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Hill magazine.
Oddi was in stable condition after being shot in an exchange of fire with police said Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez. A Doral police officer suffered broken bones but was not shot.
The gunman took a flag from a pole in the rear of the resort complex brought it into the lobby draped it over a counter yelled rhetoric against Trump and fired a gun into the air -- at the roof and chandeliers Perez said.
He then "waited for officers to engage him" the officer said. Perez said the man s immediate motive seemed to be to lure police into a gunfight. "He did succeed (in luring police) and he did lose."
The President s son Eric Trump tweeted his thanks to the Miami-area Police Department following the incident.
Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were working with the local police on investigating the incident which was being treated as a state crime rather than a federal crime.
--IANS soni/bg
The suspect identified as 42-year-old Jonathan Oddi was yelling about Trump when Miami-Dade and City of Doral police officers responded to the scene a police spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Hill magazine.
Oddi was in stable condition after being shot in an exchange of fire with police said Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez. A Doral police officer suffered broken bones but was not shot.
The gunman took a flag from a pole in the rear of the resort complex brought it into the lobby draped it over a counter yelled rhetoric against Trump and fired a gun into the air -- at the roof and chandeliers Perez said.
He then "waited for officers to engage him" the officer said. Perez said the man s immediate motive seemed to be to lure police into a gunfight. "He did succeed (in luring police) and he did lose."
The President s son Eric Trump tweeted his thanks to the Miami-area Police Department following the incident.
Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were working with the local police on investigating the incident which was being treated as a state crime rather than a federal crime.
--IANS soni/bg
