The US secret service shot a man outside the White House early on Sunday after an “armed confrontation,” said the service.
Earlier, she received advice from local police as a “suicide person who could travel to Washington from Indiana,” the statement said.
His officers approached a man who corresponding to this description, “who smeared a firearm,” adding that the shots were fired. The man is already in a hospital in an “unknown” condition, the statement said.
President Donald Trump was not in the White House at the time as he spent the weekend at his residence in Florida, Mar-A-Lago.
“As the officers approached, the individual ignited a firearm and armed confrontation arose during which the shots were fired by our staff,” the statement said.
The incident is now being investigated by the Washington Sofia City Police, which is investigating all the enforcement shootings in Colombia County.