The US Secret Service agents shot an armed man near the White House during the night, said an early agency spokesman on Sunday, while President Donald Trump spent the weekend at his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida.
The man had been hospitalized and his condition was “unknown,” said the spokesman in a statement that did not specify whether the White House or Trump could have been the planned objective.
Injuries to the agents of the Secret Service were not informed, according to the statement published by the spokesman Anthony Guglielmi on the social media platform X.
The agents had been warned by the local police of a “suicide” man who was traveling to Washington from Indiana and around midnight he found his vehicle parked near the streets 17 and F, according to the statement, very close to the White House.
Then they saw a nearby individual who coincided with the description they had given him, according to the statement.
“As the officers approached, the individual wielded a firearm and an armed confrontation occurred, during which our staff fired the shots,” said the statement.
“The suspect was transported to a hospital in the area and his condition is unknown,” he said, adding that Washington’s police were investigating.
