Overview
- Secret Service officers confronted a man near 15th Street and Independence Avenue on Monday after plainclothes teams flagged a “visual print” — the outline of a gun under clothing — and officials say he fired toward them before being shot.
- A juvenile bystander was hit by the suspect’s gunfire and is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, and the suspect was transported to a hospital as investigators recovered a weapon at the scene.
- The White House entered a short precautionary lockdown as press on the North Lawn were rushed into the briefing room, and normal access resumed within minutes.
- D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department secured the area and will lead the use-of-force investigation, with road closures expected for several hours during evidence collection.
- Vice President J.D. Vance’s motorcade passed the area shortly before the shooting with no indication it was targeted, a key concern in Washington after last week’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.