Secret Service says it shot a man near the White House who allegedly fired toward officers - BERITAJA

The U.S. Secret Service said agents connected Monday changeable a man adjacent the White House who allegedly opened occurrence aft he was confronted by authorities.

Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn told reporters that the suspect, described arsenic a “suspicious individual that appeared to person a firearm,” was spotted by plainclothes officers who past alerted uniformed officers to apprehend the man.

The fishy allegedly fled connected ft and brandished a firearm, which Quinn said he fired successful the guidance of Secret Service agents who returned fire. The fishy was taken to a hospital. His information is unknown.

Quinn added that a bystander, who he said is simply a minor, was deed by gunfire from the fishy and transported to a infirmary pinch non-life-threatening injuries.

The shooting took spot astatine 15th Street and Independence Avenue NW, Secret Service said in a station connected X.

It wasn’t clear whether the incident had immoderate relationship to President Donald Trump aliases the White House successful general. The shooting comes a week aft Cole Allen, a 31-year-old coach and technologist from California, was charged pinch attempting to assassinate the president.

Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade passed adjacent Monday's incident moments earlier the shooting, Quinn said. He said the fishy did not onslaught the motorcade and that location was nary denotation that approaching it was his intent.