US Secret Service shot gunmen near White House

The US Secret Service shot gunmen from Indiana, who was on a White House block, early this morning, after local police authorities informed the Agency of a « Suicide Suicide » agency, the agency said.

« The agents of the secret service were involved in shooting after an armed meeting with a person of interest shortly after midnight on March 9, » said secret service spokesman Anthony Julielmi on the X.

According to the New York Post, federal agents noticed the man's car parked near the intersection of the streets 17. And F, next to the building of the Eisenhower Executive Office, a block west of the Western White House.

The unidentified man headed for the famous Avenue Pennsylvania, where the secret service agents found him immediately after midnight.

A « armed showdown » came when a man took out a firearm.

The agents of the secret service were forced to open fire on the man, who was then taken to a local hospital in an unknown condition – the agency said.

None of the members of the secret service has been injured, the agency said in a statement.

US President Donald Trump at the time of the shooting stayed on his property Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

It is believed that the man, who is said to have been suicide, arrived from Indiana to the capital on Saturday, prompting local police to inform the secret service.

It is not known what his motives were, nor whether he intended to do anything.