{"id":474853,"date":"2026-02-18T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:54:07","slug":"18-year-old-with-loaded-shotgun-detained-after-running-toward-the-us-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474853\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old with loaded shotgun detained after running toward the US Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7News)  \u2014 An 18-year-old carrying a loaded shotgun ran toward the U.S. Capitol just after noon on Tuesday, according to U.S. Capitol Police  (USCP).<\/p>\n<p>Police officers told the person, identified as 18-year-old Georgia man Carter Camacho, to drop his weapon at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building, and he complied. He was taken into custody by the USCP officers.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Camacho was wearing a tactical vest and had multiple rounds of ammunition on him. A helmet and gas mask were found in his white Mercedes SUV, which was parked in the 100 block of Maryland Avenue, Southwest, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>There does not appear to be an ongoing threat or any other suspects, police said. <\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/potomac-river-sewage-spill-president-trump-federal-involvement-wastewater-contaminated-water-hazardous-washington-dc-sewer-overflow-wes-moore-abigail-spanberger-mayor-bowser-fema-federal-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump tells DC mayor, governors to act &#8216;IMMEDIATELY&#8217; on Potomac River sewage spill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The motive was immediately known. Camacho was arrested for unlawful activities, carrying a rifle without a license, and an unregistered firearm and ammunition. <\/p>\n<p>7News is working to get more information. This story will be updated as more is confirmed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 An 18-year-old carrying a loaded shotgun ran toward the U.S. Capitol just after noon on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-474853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}