Man who opened fire at Trump Club was a porn actor & stripper who admired Melania Trump
Jonathan Oddi (Twitter via Fox News)
DORAL, Fla. (AP & Fox 32 News) -- The man who opened fire at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Florida was a porn actor and stripper who was a fan of Melania Trump, the Miami Herald reported.
Jonathan Oddi, 42, carried an American flag and shouted anti-President Trump rhetoric as he stormed the lobby early Friday and shot at a chandelier, police said. He exchanged gunfire with police, who shot him in the legs and arrested him.
The Miami Herald said he had described himself as a fitness instructor and real estate investor on social media. He also was a stripper at Dancing Bear, a website that "produced videos of raucous staged parties involving women performing sex acts on male dancers."
The Miami Herald said that he fawned over Mrs. Trump on Instagram, writing: "#flotus rocks! She sets the example of mannerism. She counters Trumps aggressiveness."
"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," Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez said.
One responding officer broke a wrist, but no resort employees or guests were hurt.
Police said Oddi took a flag from a flagpole at the resort and draped it over the counter in the lobby, where he pointed his gun at several people but only fired into the ceiling and light fixtures overhead until police officers arrived.
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.
Neighbors and patrons of a nearby gym said they often saw Oddi lifting weights, but rarely interacted with the beefy man beyond casual greetings.
"He was always in the gym," said Lina Diaz, who lives on the same floor as Oddi. "He seemed like a normal guy, nothing aggressive or weird."
Oddi worked as a dancer and entertainer, owns a small dog, and was born in South Africa and grew up in Argentina, one friend, Luis David Gonzalez, told the Miami Herald and the Sun Sentinel newspapers.
Court records in Miami-Dade and Broward counties show a slew of misdemeanor traffic infractions for Oddi, but no felony arrests.