The suspected gunman arrested in connection with the assassination attempt of former US president Donald Trump had written a note months earlier to kill him.
"This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump," the note said. "I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster," read the note addressed ‘To the world’.
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He had also offered a $1,150,000 bounty on anyone to ‘finish his failed job’.
According to the court documents filed on Monday, the letter was dropped off at the home of a witness several months before the assassination bid in Florida on September 15. The box also contained ammunition, a metal pipe, and four phones.
Ryan Routh, 58, is expected to appear at a federal court on Monday.
Routh has been charged with two federal gun crimes. The federal prosecutors levied charges of improperly possessing a gun, and possessing a gun with a “defaced serial number”.
Since his arrest on September 15, Routh has been held in jail. Routh fired several shots in an attempt to assassinate the Republican presidential candidate Trump while he was golfing on his course in Florida.
This is the second bid on Trump's life in two months.
Though Routh attempted to flee away from the scene, he was stopped by the sheriff's deputies in Martin County on Interstate 95 and took him to custody. An AK 47-style firearm, used for shooting, was recovered by FBI officials.
Routh, who is originally from North Carolina, had been a Ukraine war sympathiser. In 2022, he went to Ukraine in a failed bit to recruit foreign soldiers for Ukraine’s military following Russia’s invasion.
