Police: Man tried ambush attack at Trump resort

DORAL, Fla. — A fitness buff carrying an American flag and shouting about President Donald Trump stormed the hotel lobby of Trump’s Miami- area golf resort early Friday and opened fire at a chandelier. He then waited for police to arrive and exchanged gunfire with officers who shot him in the legs and arrested him.

The motive for the shooting at Trump National Doral Golf Club around 1: 30 a. m. was not immediately clear, but Miami- Dade Police Director Juan Perez said the man pointed his gun at several people and shouted “anti- Trump” rhetoric before waiting for police to confront him.

“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.

In plotting the ambush, Perez added, “He did succeed, and he did lose.”

One responding officer broke a wrist, but no resort employees or guests were hurt. Trump was not at the suburban golf resort at the time.

Perez identified the suspect as 42- yearold Jonathan Oddi, who lives in a condo building about a mile away.

Oddi was expected to face various criminal charges. Video footage showed the conscious suspect being wheeled into a hospital on a gurney, and Miami- Dade Police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said Oddi remained hospitalized in good condition Friday afternoon.