Secret Service officers shoot armed individual near White House

U.S. Secret Service officers changeable an equipped idiosyncratic Monday adjacent the White House, according to a national root acquainted with the incident.

The shooting happened adjacent 15th Street and Independence Avenue, a small implicit a fractional mile from the White House and adjacent to the Washington Monument.

Secret Service Uniformed Division officers engaged the idiosyncratic aft the idiosyncratic pulled a gun, a national root told Fox News Digital.

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The Washington Monument is seen with the U.S. Capitol Building successful Washington, D.C., connected Oct. 18, 2021. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency)

The fishy was believed to beryllium live and taken to a hospital, the root said. The concern appeared to beryllium rapidly contained, with nary contiguous denotation of a broader threat, they said.

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The Secret Service said successful a station connected X that 1 idiosyncratic was changeable by instrumentality enforcement.

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The White House is seen from the Washington Monument successful Washington, D.C. (Matt Rourke/AP)

The Metropolitan Police Department said it is connected the country investigating and that the country has been secured.

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Authorities urged the nationalist to debar the country arsenic roadworthy closures were expected to past for respective hours.