Live Updates: Suspect Insulted Trump in Book, but Never Fired a Shot

The man arrested near Donald J. Trump’s golf course in Florida first approached the perimeter fence near the sixth hole about 12 hours before the former president would have teed off there, according to data retrieved from the man’s cellphone. But officials say the suspect never had Mr. Trump in his sights.

The defendant, Ryan W. Routh, 58, did not get a shot off on Sunday, the agency’s acting director, Ronald L. Rowe Jr., said at a news conference. Instead, agents opened fire on him, preventing what officials have described as an apparent assassination attempt by someone with a lengthy criminal record who discussed the morality of assassination in a self-published book.