Secret Service Agent Shoots Armed Man Outside White House
- Obama was playing golf and wasn’t on the White House grounds
- One person taken to the hospital with critical injuries
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A U.S. Secret Service agent shot a man with a gun near the White House on Friday, the agency said in a statement. The man was transported to a hospital with critical injuries, the local fire department said.
The Secret Service said that shortly after 3 p.m. New York time a man carrying a firearm approached a checkpoint on a street outside the White House complex. He failed to comply with "numerous verbal commands" to stop and drop the weapon, and was then shot once by an agent and taken into custody, the agency said in a statement.