On Saturday, the Secret Service said it responded to reports of gunshots outside the White House around noon, CNN reports.
“BREAKING: Secret Service personnel are responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound along the north fence line of @WhiteHouse,” the official Secret Service Twitter account tweeted Saturday afternoon.
BREAKING: Secret Service personnel are responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound along the north fence line of @WhiteHouse.
— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) March 3, 2018
UPDATE: Medical Personnel are responding to the male victim.
— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) March 3, 2018
While the full details were not immediately known, Secret Service spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan told CNN that the only victim suffered a single self-inflicted gunshot wound, and that Secret Service personnel did not have to fire any shots, despite being seen sprinting across the White House lawn with their guns drawn in response to the incident.
According to NBC News, White House personnel were told to shelter in place at 11:30 a.m, and a lockdown on the White House was lifted after 45 minutes. President Trump and FLOTUS Melania Trump were both reportedly in Mar-a-Lago in Florida at the time, though they’re scheduled to return to Washington this evening. According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the president was briefed on the situation.
As of right now, the victim’s condition and identity have not been made public. Thankfully, according to reports by the Secret Service, no one else was hurt in the incident.
BREAKING: A man has shot himself in front of the White House, a law enforcement source says https://t.co/ZVCKZGzsSh https://t.co/7qTOzdMPoo
— CNN (@CNN) March 3, 2018