A reportedly armed man was shot outside the White House this afternoon.
A uniformed Secret Service officer shot an armed person on a street outside the White House https://t.co/O7SfM12lwE pic.twitter.com/F91kCNamUx
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) May 20, 2016
No word on motive at this point, only that the suspect was male and shot in the abdomen and transported in critical condition to a local hospital.
The White House was placed on lockdown. VP Biden was present at the complex, but not President Obama.
The shooting occurred after an earlier incident when Secret Service officers cleared the White House North Lawn, Pennsylvania Avenue and Lafayette Park during an ongoing security incident.
Suspect who shot at #WhiteHouse is in custody. Here's @joejohnscnn from the briefing room: https://t.co/a7QARBV9TY https://t.co/k05MQhjAe7
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) May 20, 2016
It will be interesting to see the Obama administration’s take on the shooting and if it will feed into its anti-Second Amendment rhetoric.
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