A man found lurking with a gun near Donald Trump’s Florida golf course last year was found guilty Tuesday of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, Fox News reported.

A jury found that Ryan Routh, 59, intended to kill Trump, then a former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate, when he pointed a rifle through a fence while Trump was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Routh fled without firing a shot after a U.S. Secret Service agent patrolling the course ahead of Trump spotted Routh and the rifle and opened fire, according to witness testimony in the case.

“This plot was carefully crafted and deadly serious,” prosecutor John Shipley said at the start of the trial, adding that w

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