US Secret Service shoots armed man near White House: spokesman

A US Marine stands sentry outside the West Wing of the White House ahead of US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (AFP)
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WASHINGTON: US Secret Service agents shot a gunman near the White House, a spokesman said early Sunday, adding that the man had been hospitalized and his condition was “unknown.”
The agents had earlier been warned by local police of a “suicidal” man traveling to Washington from Indiana, and encountered him on a street very near the White House, where “an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel,” according to a statement posted by spokesman Anthony Guglielmi on X.