Florida prosecutors officially charged Ryan Wesley Routh with attempted assassination on Tuesday over his alleged failed plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a golf course in West Palm Beach earlier this month.
The case was randomly assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who gained prominence for overseeing and tossing the federal classified documents case against the former president, per CNN.
Routh was originally charged with one count of obliteration of a firearm’s serial number, and count of possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon. But his charges now include attempted assassination, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and assaulting a federal officer.