The Secret Service shot a 27-year-old man near the White House early Sunday after an armed confrontation with federal officers, the agency said in a statement.
President Trump was spending the weekend in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago Club and was not at the White House at the time.
On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington shared information with the Secret Service about a man named Andrew Dawson who may have been traveling to Washington from Indiana. The bulletin said that Dawson wanted to die by “suicide by cop’’ and was armed with a BB gun.
Around midnight, members of the Secret Service encountered the person’s parked vehicle near 17th and F streets, about a block from the White House. A man was outside of the vehicle, the agency said.
As officers approached, they saw that the man had a gun and then a confrontation ensued, during which the Secret Service shot the man, the agency said.
He was transported to a hospital, and his condition was unknown.
NEW YORK TIMES
