US Secret Service shoots armed man outside White House
The Secret Service opened fire outside the White House earlier Sunday after an “armed confrontation.” The department said in a statement.
It said it earlier got “a suicide person who might have traveled from Indiana to Washington, D.C..”
Its officials approached a man who matched the description, “who waved the gun” and added that the shooting was shot. It said the man is now in an “unknown” state.
President Donald Trump was not in the White House at the time because he spent a weekend in Mar-A-Lago, Florida.
“As the officers approached, they followed by firearms and then armed confrontation, during which they were fired by our personnel,” the statement said.
The incident is now under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, which has investigated all law enforcement shootings in the District of Columbia.
