Gunman injured in shootout at Trump resort
DORAL, Fla. — Gunfire erupted early Friday at President Donald Trump’s Miami-area golf resort, as a Florida man shouting antiTrump rhetoric fired into the hotel lobby’s chandelier and waited for police to arrive for what one official called an “ambush-type attack,” police said.
Five police officers from Miami-Dade County and the city of Doral exchanged gunfire with the man, injuring him, and ended the threat at the Trump-owned Trump National Doral Golf Club, Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez said.
“These officers did not hesitate one second to engage this individual that was actively shooting in the lobby of the hotel,” Perez said. “They risked their lives, knowing that that they had to get in there to save lives in that hotel.”
Trump was not at the suburban golf resort at the time.
Perez identified the suspect as Jonathan Oddi, 42, who lives in a condo building about a mile away.
Perez said Oddi took a flag from a flagpole at the resort and draped it over the counter in the lobby, where he pointed his gun at several people but only fired into the ceiling and light fixtures overhead until police officers arrived.
It was not clear how Oddi gained access to the resort grounds.
“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,” Perez said.
One Doral police officer broke a wrist and the suspect suffered gunshot wounds in his legs in the incident, which began around 1:30 a.m., police said.
Video footage showed the suspect being wheeled into a hospital on a gurney. A police spokesman said Oddi was hospitalized in good condition.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump organization, tweeted Friday, “A huge thank you to the incredible men and women” of the departments, adding that “every day they keep our community safe.”
Court records show misdemeanor traffic infractions for Oddi. Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez gives details about the shootout Friday.