Secret Service Shoots Armed Man Near White House

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The suspect was transported to a hospital and his condition is currently unknown.

The U.S. Secret Service shot an adult male near the White House following an โ€œarmed confrontationโ€ with law enforcement shortly after midnight on March 9, the agency said.

The man was shot near the intersection of 17th Street and F Street NW, according to a statement posted to the social media platform X by Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi.

The day prior, local police reported a โ€œsuicidal individualโ€ possibly traveling to Washington from Indiana, the agency said. After Secret Service agents found the individualโ€™s vehicle, they saw a person on foot matching the description.

โ€œAs officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm, and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel,โ€ the agency said.

Authorities transported the suspect to a hospital, and his condition is currently unknown. No injuries were reported among Secret Service personnel and the incident remains under investigation, the agency added.

President Donald Trump was not inside the White House during the incident, as he is at his Florida residence for the weekend.

Washingtonโ€™s Metropolitan Police said its internal affairs division investigators were probing the incident but did not offer further comment.

This is not the first instance in which an armed man was shot by security officers on or near the White House grounds.

In 2016, a Pennsylvania man was shot by a Secret Service guard after brandishing a firearm near the White House. He survived and was sentenced to eight months of house arrest.

Another incident in 2023 involved a 20-year-old Indian citizen named Sai Varshith Kandula, who had tried to barrel through the White Houseโ€™s protective barriers with a rented truck. The man pleaded guilty to damaging federal property in May 2023 and said he was trying to overthrow the U.S. government and had been โ€œfueled by the ideology of Nazi Germany.โ€

By Jacob Burg

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