Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged gunman in Sunday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, sat in a sniper’s nest he set up near the former president’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, for nearly 12 hours before the Secret Service detected him, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

According to the federal criminal complaint, which was obtained by the New York Post, Routh’s cell phone began pinging to the area on the edge of the Trump International Golf Club at 1:59 a.m. Sunday.

Secret Service agents spotted the barrel of his gun at approximately 1:30 p.m., while Trump was playing a round of golf 300 to 500 yards away.

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