Overview
- Secret Service officers on Monday at 15th Street and Independence Avenue say a man ran, fired at them, and was shot, prompting a brief White House lockdown.
- Plainclothes agents had flagged the man after noticing a “visual print” of a firearm under his clothing, then called in uniformed officers.
- Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as 45-year-old Michael Marx of Texas, who was struck multiple times, hospitalized in serious but stable condition, and had a weapon recovered at the scene.
- A teenage bystander suffered a non-life-threatening wound that investigators believe came from the suspect’s gunfire and was later released from a hospital.
- MPD leads the use-of-force review, prosecutors plan federal charges, and officials report no sign the president or Vice President JD Vance was targeted even though Vance’s motorcade passed the area shortly before the gunfire.