{"id":48301,"date":"2026-05-24T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48301"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:01:28","slug":"suspect-dies-after-trading-gunfire-with-officers-near-white-house-secret-service-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/suspect-dies-after-trading-gunfire-with-officers-near-white-house-secret-service-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect dies after trading gunfire with officers near White House, Secret Service says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters:\u00a0 Officers shot \u200ba suspect who fired at a White House \u200ccheckpoint on Saturday evening, who then died after being taken to the hospital, the Secret Service said.<\/p>\n<p>A person approached the \u200bcheckpoint at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue \u200bnear the White House, pulled a gun out \u2060of his bag and started shooting at \u200bofficers, according to a Secret Service statement posted \u200bon social media. Officers returned fire and shot the suspect, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>A bystander was also struck by gunfire, but \u200bit was not clear how badly the \u200bperson was hurt, according to a separate Secret Service statement \u200ccited \u2060by multiple news outlets. The statement said it was not clear who fired the shot that hit the bystander.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting suspect was identified as an \u200bemotionally disturbed \u200bperson, a \u2060law enforcement official told Reuters, adding that a &#8220;stay-away order&#8221; had been issued \u200bto him previously.<\/p>\n<p>No law enforcement personnel were injured, \u200bthe \u2060Secret Service said. President Donald Trump was at the White House during the incident, the Secret Service said.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting \u2060by \u200bJana Winter and Rodrigo Campos; \u200bAdditional reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Writing by \u200bRodrigo Campos; Editing by Sergio Non and David Gregorio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters:\u00a0 Officers shot \u200ba suspect who fired at a White House \u200ccheckpoint on Saturday evening, who then died after being taken to the hospital, the Secret Service said. A person approached the \u200bcheckpoint at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue \u200bnear the White House, pulled a gun out \u2060of his bag and started shooting at \u200bofficers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48303,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48301\/revisions\/48303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}