A yet-to-be-identified man was shot by the US Secret Service outside the White House on Sunday following an “armed confrontation.”
According to a statement by the Secret Service, local police had earlier provided intelligence about a “suicidal individual who may be traveling to Washington, DC, from Indiana.”
BBC reports that officers approached a man matching the description, who then brandished a firearm, leading to shots being fired. The man was injured and is currently hospitalized in an unknown condition.
At the time of the incident, President Donald Trump was at his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.
The case is now under investigation by Washington’s Metropolitan Police, which handles all law-enforcement shootings in the District of Columbia.
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