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Police and members of the Secret Service block streets around the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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Police and members of the Secret Service stand near an EMS truck after blocking streets around the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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Evidence markers are seen on a crime scene after police responded to reports of shots fired near the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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U.S. Secret Service Police observe from the roof of the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington, after reports of shots fired near the White House.<\/p>\n
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Police and members of the Secret Service block streets around the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington.<\/p>\n
Alex Brandon\/AP Photo\/Alex Brandon<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at officers has died, according to federal officials.<\/p>\n
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The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement late Saturday that, according to a preliminary investigation, the person approached a checkpoint shortly after 6 p.m. ET \u201cremoved a weapon from his bag and began firing at posted officers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Officers returned fire and hit the suspect, who was transported to an area hospital, where he later died, according to the Secret Service.<\/p>\n
A bystander was struck, but a law enforcement official said it wasn\u2019t clear whether that person was struck by the suspect\u2019s initial bullets or those fired subsequently by officers.<\/p>\n
Secret Service said none of its officers were injured, and that President Donald Trump \u2014 who was at the White House at the time \u2014 was not “impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP\u2019s earlier story follows below.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. Secret Service shot a person near the White House on Saturday, and a bystander also was shot, a law enforcement official said.<\/p>\n
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.<\/p>\n
Journalists working at the White House on Saturday reported hearing a series of gunshots and were told to seek shelter inside the press briefing room.<\/p>\n
On X, the Secret Service said it was \u201caware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW\u201d \u2014 one block from the White House \u2014 and was \u201cworking to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground.\u201d It said it will have an update shortly.<\/p>\n
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In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel said officers were responding to shots fired and said he would \u201cupdate the public as we\u2019re able.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump was inside the White House at the time.<\/p>\n
Evidence of the shooting was visible on a sidewalk just outside the White House complex, where yellow crime scene tape snaked across the pavement and officers with the U.S. Secret Service placed dozens of orange evidence markers on the ground. Medical material, including what appeared to be purple surgical gloves and kits typically used by emergency medical personnel, were also seen.<\/p>\n
In a post shared on X, ABC News senior White House correspondent Selina Wang shared dramatic video of the moment she said she heard what \u201csounded like dozens of gunshots\u201d and ducked for cover. Writing that she had been performing a routine task that White House reporters do daily \u2014 filming themselves on a cellphone for a social media post \u2014 Wang\u2019s video shows her speaking for a few seconds about Trump\u2019s statements earlier Saturday about a potential Iran deal.<\/p>\n
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As the sounds of gunfire are heard in the background, Wang\u2019s eyes grow wider, and she ducks down in the media tent, which is among those situated in a line along the White House driveway where broadcasters film their reports. On X, Wang\u2019s video had been shared thousands of times as of Saturday evening, and viewed at least 3 million times.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police Department said on its X Account that the Secret Service was working the scene and cautioned people to avoid the area. The scene is near where a gunman ambushed two members of the West Virginia National Guard last November.<\/p>\n
U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from her wounds. Andrew Wolfe, then 24, was critically wounded. Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been charged in that incident.<\/p>\n
The gunfire Saturday comes nearly a month after what law enforcement authorities said was an attempted assassination of the president on April 25 as he attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at a Washington hotel. Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, recently pleaded not guilty to charges that he attempted to kill Trump and remains in federal custody.<\/p>\n
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Following that scare, Secret Service officers shot a suspect they said had fired at officers near the Washington Monument, also near the White House. Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, was charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in connection with the May 4 shooting. A teenage bystander was wounded in that incident.<\/p>\n
Associated Press photojournalists Jose Luis Magana and Alex Brandon and AP writers Gary Fields, Meg Kinnard and Matthew Daly contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and members of the Secret Service block streets around the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[111026,102553,32533,145,9421,103357,23681,59373,86795,59371,59372,61262,35560,82,84,83,111025,111024],"class_list":["post-306470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-andrew-wolfe","tag-cole-tomas-allen","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-kash-patel","tag-michael-marx","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30117-ap-washington-dc-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-rahmanullah-lakanwal","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-selina-wang","tag-white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306470","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=306470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}