THE GUARDIAN on Austin Martin

From Ed Pilkington's 2-23-26 GUARDIAN article entitled "New Details Emerge About Armed Man Shot and Killed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago": 

The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Donald Trump’s Florida resort on Sunday – while carrying a shotgun – came from a North Carolina family of the president’s supporters and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.

The focus of the FBI’s investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on his movements and motives. Martin was confronted by Secret Service agents and a local sheriff’s deputy inside the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago and killed after he had raised a shotgun into the shooting position at about 1.30am on Sunday, law enforcement said [...].

The illustrator came from Cameron, North Carolina, where his relatives described him as quiet and generally opposed to guns. Martin’s cousin told the Associated Press that the family was staunchly pro-Trump.

“We are big Trump supporters, all of us,” Braeden Fields said. “Everybody.” He added, though, that Marin tended not to talk about politics.

Fields said Martin would regularly send a portion of his monthly paycheck to charity – and he had difficulty fathoming what authorities say his cousin had done on Sunday.

Martin’s family appear to have become alarmed by his disappearance over the weekend, posting on Facebook that he was missing. A missing person’s report was entered into a national database after the Moore county sheriff’s office in North Carolina received a report from a relative early on Sunday morning...

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