The subject was holding a shotgun and a fuel can….
He was shot by two Secret Service agents and a Palm County Shieff’s Deputy….
The follow up investiagtion will invole the FBI, Secret Service and Palm County Sheiff’s investigators….
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Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters Sunday morning that the individual, identified as Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old White man from Cameron, North Carolina, was carrying a gas canister and a shotgun. Bradshaw confirmed the identification of Martin after initially withholding it until officials could notify his family.
According to Bradshaw, the officers confronted Martin around 1:30 a.m. and ordered him to put down the gas canister and the gun. He put down the canister and “raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Bradshaw said.
“At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons” and shot and killed the man, who died at the scene, Bradshaw said.
Bradshaw said the incident happened “just inside the inner perimeter” of Mar-a-Lago, near the estate’s north gate….
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Bradshaw did not specify which officers fired their weapons or how many shots were fired, saying that is under investigation. Officers involved in the incident, he said, were wearing body cameras. Officials will release photos of the man’s weapon, he added. The FBI is the lead agency running the investigation, Bradshaw said, with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office assisting….
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