{"id":282453,"date":"2026-05-07T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282453\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:21:14","slug":"texas-man-charged-after-shootout-with-secret-service-near-washington-monument-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282453\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man charged after shootout with Secret Service near Washington Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 A man from Midland, Texas, is facing federal charges after investigators said he opened fire on Secret Service<\/a> officers and shot a teen before he was hit by gunfire.<\/p>\n

A criminal complaint against Michael Marx, 45, was filed in U.S. District Court Wednesday.<\/a> It includes screenshots of key moments captured by surveillance video.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will prove this defendant carried an illegal firearm into the heart of Washington, D.C., opened fire at Secret Service officers near a crowded intersection, and shot an innocent bystander who was simply crossing the street with his family,\u201d U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Marx was spotted by a U.S. Secret Service agent working in plain clothes near the Washington Monument<\/a>, by the intersection of 15th Street and Madison Drive NW, around 3:40 p.m. Monday with what appeared to be a gun concealed on his person, according to the criminal complaint. At the same time, the Vice President’s motorcade<\/a> was also passing through the area of 15th Street and Independence Avenue SW.<\/p>\n

Read the criminal complaint against Marx below:<\/p>\n

According to the court document, uniformed Secret Service officers approached Marx as he was near the path of the motorcade. Officers said they told Marx to stop, but he ran along Independence Avenue.<\/p>\n

Eventually, investigators said Marx pulled out a Sig Sauer P365 handgun and opened fire on the Secret Service officers, hitting a bystander, a juvenile, behind the officers in the leg. The Secret Service returned fire, hitting Marx in the hand, left arm and body, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

Marx was identified by his driver’s license, according to investigators. As he was being taken to the hospital, Marx was heard saying “(expletive) the White House” and “Kill me,” according to the court document.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously probably not enough in and of itself to be a threat, but I think taken together with other actions and language that he may have used, [prosecutors] may be able to bring a case for threatening the president or threatening somebody high up in the government,” John Fishwick, a former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, said.<\/p>\n

Fishwick said investigators will be going through search warrants of Marx’s home, cell phone and any other devices, as well as speaking with his neighbors and family to learn more about the suspect’s background. <\/p>\n

“Was there some person or persons who was targeted while he was there, or did all this just get ignited when he saw the Secret Service agents? Was there some plan that he had? [Investigators] are going to run into all that,” Fishwick said.<\/p>\n

Marx is charged with assaulting federal officers with a dangerous weapon, using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He has a prior drug trafficking conviction out of Florida, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 A man from Midland, Texas, is facing federal charges after investigators said he opened fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-282453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}