Shots fired near White House, but Trump safe
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US President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a Secret Service agent out of the White House press room as he began a coronavirus briefing on Monday. He returned minutes later, saying there had been a 鈥渟hooting鈥 outside the White House that was 鈥渦nder control.鈥
鈥淭here was an actual shooting and somebody鈥檚 been taken to the hospital,鈥 Trump said. The president said the shots were fired by law enforcement and that he believed the individual who was shot was armed. 鈥淚t was the suspect who was shot,鈥 he added. Trump said he was escorted to the Oval Office by the agent.
The shooting occurred just before 6pm after a 51-year-old man approached a uniformed Secret Service officer near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue just blocks from the White House and told the officer he had a weapon, said Tom Sullivan, chief of the Secret Service Uniformed Division.
鈥淎t no time during this incident was the White House complex breached or were any protectees in danger,鈥 Sullivan said.
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