Overview
- Michael Marx, 45, was identified as the suspect and on Wednesday prosecutors filed counts that include assaulting federal officers, using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and illegal possession of a gun by a convicted felon.
- The confrontation unfolded Monday near 15th Street and Independence Avenue after plainclothes agents spotted what looked like a concealed gun, the man ran, fired toward officers, and agents shot him as a juvenile bystander was injured with non-life-threatening wounds.
- An affidavit says investigators recovered a 9mm SIG Sauer handgun and that Marx shouted profanities about the White House and pleaded to be killed while in an ambulance, and he remains hospitalized.
- Officials said the gunfire happened outside the White House perimeter, reporters were briefly moved indoors during a short lockdown, and there is no known link to President Trump or to Vice President J.D. Vance’s motorcade that passed the area moments earlier.
- The Metropolitan Police Department is leading the use-of-force review as federal agents execute search warrants on Marx’s devices, a step that follows a recent attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that has kept security posture high across central Washington.