President Trump
U.S. president, President Donald Trump said the 51-year-old armed man who approached a security service officer outside the White House yesterday was shot and wounded by US Secret Service agents
According to the U.S. chief of the Secret Service Uniformed Division, Tom Sullivan in a twitter broadcast, the suspect told the officer he had a weapon and ran “aggressively” towards him, drawing an object out of his clothes.
Sullivan added that the man assumed a “shooter’s stance” as if he intended to fire, whereupon the Secret Service officer shot him in the torso after which officers on the scene administered first aid, and calling upon emergency medical services to take the suspect and the officer to the hospital.
Sullivan further disclosed that the Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility will be conducting an internal review of the officer’s actions adding that the DC Metropolitan Police Department had been contacted.
The U.S. president when asked if the person had been armed, answered: “From what I understand, the answer is yes.”