Suspect dead after approaching White House checkpoint with weapon, Secret Service says

    https://apnews.com/article/white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump-204c429ab3888b3d0921cf724e0c0474?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-05-23-Breaking+News

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    1. By approaching they mean walking up, pulling out a gun, and shooting at Secret Service agents.

    2. The fact that they won’t say if the bystander is alive or not, probably means secret service accidentally killed them. Hope that is not the case.

    3. Zealousideal-Mall973 on

      Turns out many people do not like pdafiles. Who would have guessed that

    4. Grateful5150 on

      Ever notice this stuff always happens on a Saturday? Butler, correspondents dinner, and now this. 

    5. joe_cocker_spaniel on

      This area is so heavily guarded that it’s insane for anyone to attempt to breach it. Source: went through one of these checkpoints recently to attend a public event on the south lawn.

    6. >A bystander was struck, but a law enforcement official said it wasn’t clear whether that person was struck by the suspect’s initial bullets or those fired subsequently by officers.

      Yeah, I bet it was the officers.

    7. Embarrassed-Pace-755 on

      The shooter is the definition of “so anyways, I started blasting.”

    8. Every would be assassin going forward needs to make sure their manifesto explicitly excludes Kash Patel, just for shits and giggles.

    9. Complete-Definition4 on

      The shooting suspect was identified as an emotionally disturbed person, a law enforcement official told Reuters, adding that a “stay-away order” had been issued to him previously.

      The suspect in the shooting near the White House was reportedly 21 years old.

    10. Nobody_Super_Famous on

      Ah, that’s why Trump skipped the wedding. He already had plans.

    11. Suspect dead after approaching checkpoint outside child rapist’s home with weapon, Child Rapist Protection Service says.

    12. Far-Advantage-2770 on

      Apparently Presidential assassins knock on the front door of the White House with their guns out?

    13. habitsofwaste on

      Has there ever been a president with this much of a violent reaction to them? I mean either he is that hated, this is all part of their plan and they’re using patsies to sacrifice themselves, or both?

    14. I’ll concern myself with shots being fired at a Republican White House just as soon as Republicans concern themselves with shots being fired in elementary schools.

    15. prodigalpariah on

      Is this person also going to disappear off of all media in a few days too?