The 21-year-old man shot and killed by Secret Service agents after allegedly attempting to break into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in the early hours of Sunday came from a family of “avid Trump supporters,” according to a relative.

The FBI confirmed the suspect was Austin Tucker Martin, who entered the premises at the resort’s north gate armed with a shotgun and a gas canister around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, were not at the Florida residence at the time.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Supports my theory that this was a version of suicide by cop. He just couldn’t live with his family any more and needed a way out.

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      8 hours ago

      When I think of how twisted and fucked up the world around you has to be to coexist with a Trump supporter? That makes total sense.

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      7 hours ago

      He could at least have done one of those big family sayonara’s & then called it an adios. No one would be the least bit surprised or upset.