Newsman: Secret Service personnel shot an armed man near the White House early Sunday. The Secret Service said in statement, The Secret Service had been contacted on Saturday by local police, who said a “suicidal individual” may have been traveling to Washington from Indiana, according to the statement.
The statement said, Secret Service members found the man’s parked vehicle near 17th and F streets in Washington at about midnight, the statement said. The vehicle was parked near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is next to the White House.
“They also saw an individual on foot matching the description nearby,” the statement said. “As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel.”
The man was taken to an area hospital, where his condition “is unknown,” the statement said. No other injuries were reported.
Secret Service personnel were not injured during the confrontation, the service said.
Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the shooting took place “following an armed confrontation” with law enforcement.
The shooting comes a month after a man was taken into custody after attempting to scale the White House South Lawn fence. On Feb. 3, at around 4:20 p.m., Secret Service officers responded to reports of someone climbing an outer fence along the South Grounds of the White House.
The incident was under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division’s Force Investigations Team, which investigates all law enforcement officer-involved shootings in the District of Columbia.
The agency came under intense scrutiny after a failed assassination attempt at a July rally in Pennsylvania that wounded Trump, killed one rally goer and seriously wounded two others before the gunman was fatally shot.
Multiple investigations into the Secret Service response to that shooting faulted the agency for failing to stop a “preventable” attack.
