{"id":253471,"date":"2026-04-06T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:39:12","slug":"no-one-hurt-in-overnight-shooting-near-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253471\/","title":{"rendered":"No one hurt in overnight shooting near the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7NEWS) \u2014 Authorities are searching for a person of interest after reports of gunfire near the White House overnight. <\/p>\n<p>The United States Secret Service said officers responded shortly after midnight on April 4 to reports of shots fired near Lafayette Park, just north of the White House. <\/p>\n<p>A thorough search of the park and surrounding area did not track down a suspect, and no injuries have been reported. <\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/bus-plows-into-restaurant-northwest-washington-dc-fire-ems-emergency-response-7th-street-q-street-investigation-injuries-crash-accident-vehicle-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3 women hurt after crash sends Metro bus plowing into restaurant in Northwest DC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials said operations at the White House remain normal, but a heightened security posture is in effect. <\/p>\n<p>Several roads were briefly shut down during the investigation, including: <\/p>\n<p>H Street NW (15th to 17th Streets)I Street NW (15th to 17th Streets)16th Street NW (K Street south to H Street)<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service, working alongside the Metropolitan Police Department and United States Park Police, is actively searching for a possible vehicle and person of interest. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7NEWS) \u2014 Authorities are searching for a person of interest after reports of gunfire near the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-253471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}