Rogata was arrested Wednesday evening and taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychological evaluation. The case was closed after Ryan agreed to come home and said he would not run away again, the police report said.ĭavis said he watched his former classmate on television Wednesday. Ryan apparently ran away after his parents put limits on his Internet access at home and at school. Ryan's mother told police her son's academic performance had declined because of his "obsession" with an "Internet project" involving a blog on government issues, the police report said. In November 2014, Ryan's parents contacted the Fairfax County Police Department to say their son had run away, according to a police report obtained by CNN. "There is nobody of that name currently employed by the FCRC as an intern or in any other capacity, nor do we have a member by that name."
"It is our understanding that a Michael Ryan was an intern with our organization some time before 2014, but we cannot confirm that it was the same individual" who scaled Trump Tower, the committee's executive director, Eric Johnson, said in a statement. The Fairfax County Republican Committee said Ryan worked there during his high school years. But, in his personal life, always really nice."Īsked about Rogata's politics, Davis said: "He just had standard Republican/conservative beliefs that came up in government classes and lunch conversations." "He was a normal high school guy," Davis said. They took honor's classes together, had mutual friends and competed on the debate team, according to Davis. Rogata, a Great Falls resident, was formerly Michael Joseph Ryan but changed his name in 2015, according a court affidavit obtained by CNN.Ĭameron Davis, 19, remembers him from their years at northern Virginia's Langley High School, class of 2015. This is what we know about the Trump Tower climber and his stunt: Rogata soared until a pair of hulking police officers, who had removed a glass panel on the 21st floor, snatched him back to terra firma to face criminal charges. It was a spectacle befitting Trump's larger-than-life persona. Outlets such as Time, BuzzFeed News and New York's ABC 7 streamed the event via Facebook Live. Millions witnessed his daredevil stunt as multiple cable networks like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News aired the climb live. Every foot of the ascent lifted Rogata to a new level of social media stardom.
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