00:01Witness video captured the moment gunfire rang out near the White House on Saturday evening.
00:07According to a Secret Service statement, a man approached a security checkpoint near the president's residence and office, pulled out
00:14a gun and started firing at officers there.
00:1725 or 30 rapid, which sounded like gunshots.
00:21A News Nation correspondent at the scene relayed the tense moment on a news bulletin.
00:25Secret Service, they just hurried everybody into the press briefing room, getting in here as quickly as possible, yelling, shots
00:34fired, shots fired, get down, get down, get into the press briefing room.
00:39Officers returned fire and shot the suspect, who later died in hospital, the Secret Service statement said.
00:45It added that one bystander was struck by gunfire but did not detail their condition.
00:49The suspect was identified as an emotionally disturbed person, a law enforcement official told Reuters, adding that a stay-away
00:57order had been issued to him previously.
01:00President Donald Trump was at the White House during the incident, the Secret Service said.
01:04On a social media post, Trump thanked the agency and other law enforcement officers for their swift and professional action,
01:12taken against a man he said had a violent history and possible obsession with the White House.
01:16He also called for building, quote, the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D
01:22.C., in what appeared to be another push for his bunker-like White House ballroom project.
01:28Almost a month ago, a gunman fired shots inside the hotel hosting the White House correspondent's dinner, prompting Trump and
01:35other officials to be rushed out.
01:36The president has since been making his case for the U.S. Congress to allocate $1 billion for security enhancements
01:43to his ballroom.
Comments