Man Brandishing Gun Shot By Secret Service Outside White House

The Secret Service surrounded a person who was brandishing a gun close to The White House on Sunday.

The company mentioned they had been notified on Saturday by native legislation enforcement {that a} man who they imagine was suicidal had traveled from Indiana to Washington D.C. late Saturday night time, SS officers observed the person parked subsequent to a constructing immediately subsequent to The White House. The SS says as officers approached his automobile, he brandished a firearm and “an armed confrontation ensued, throughout which photographs had been fired.”

The person was transported to a neighborhood hospital the place his situation is at present unknown, the company’s assertion concluded.

Not one of the Secret Service brokers dealing with the state of affairs had been injured.