NC neighbor of Trump shooting suspect says he was ‘a little cuckoo’ : ‘A lot of people were afraid of him’

A neighbor of Ryan Wesley Routh in Greensboro, North Carolina, is speaking out, saying she always thought the alleged gunman next-door was “a little cuckoo.”

“I mean, I didn’t think he would go that far. I knew he was a little cuckoo, but assassinating the president? I mean, he’s going to be going away for a long time,” the neighbor told Fox 8.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, is accused of targeting former President Donald Trump in an assassination attempt on Sunday.@save_mrpl/X

The woman -- who lived next to Routh for nearly two decades -- claims her former neighbor "had a lot of guns" and that "a lot of people were afraid of him back in the day.”

However, she never imagined he’d try to assassinate a former president.

“Him, I mean, trying to shoot Trump. That’s a lot. I would have never guessed, and I would have swore up and down, no, that’s not him,” she said. “… I just can’t believe it. I mean, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I mean the pictures and stuff and all, then I wouldn’t be able to believe that.”

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