What we know about the man killed at Mar-a-Lago

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   Authorities said he was armed, but his cousin said he had no interest in guns. The man who authorities said breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago wielding a shotgun and a gas canister early Sunday had never shown an appetite for deadly weapons nor shown much interest in politics -- in fact, quite the opposite, according to his cousin. Austin Tucker Martin was "very quiet" and inexperienced with guns, his cousin Braeden Fields said. Martin did, however, like golf courses, and worked on one, his cousin said. "He doesn't even know how to use a gun. He's never used a gun," Fields told ABC station WTVD hours after Martin had been shot and killed while authorities say he was trying to enter President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

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