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The US Secret Service changeable a antheral extracurricular the White House aboriginal connected Sunday aft an "armed confrontation", the work said successful a statement.
It had earlier received a tip-off from section constabulary astir a "suicidal idiosyncratic who whitethorn beryllium travelling to Washington DC from Indiana", it said.
Its officers approached a antheral matching that description, "who brandished a firearm", adding that shots were fired. The antheral is present successful infirmary successful an "unknown" condition, it said.
President Donald Trump was not successful the White House astatine the time, arsenic helium is spending the play astatine his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.
"As officers approached, the idiosyncratic brandished a firearm and an equipped confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel," the connection said.
The incidental is present nether probe by Washington's Metropolitan Police, which investigates each law-enforcement shootings successful the District of Columbia.
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