{"id":1389963,"date":"2026-05-05T10:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-shooting-occurred-near-the-white-house-in-washington-an-armed-man-attacked-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:49:55","slug":"a-shooting-occurred-near-the-white-house-in-washington-an-armed-man-attacked-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-shooting-occurred-near-the-white-house-in-washington-an-armed-man-attacked-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"A shooting occurred near the White House in Washington: an armed man attacked agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shooting involving the US Secret Service occurred near the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 4 near the Washington Monument, when law enforcement officers opened fire on a gunman.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by<\/a> PBS and CNN.<\/p>\n

According to US media, Secret Service officers spotted a suspicious man with a gun while patrolling the outer perimeter of the White House. When law enforcement officers approached, he began to run away and later opened fire in their direction.<\/p>\n

In response, the agents opened fire and wounded the attacker. A minor bystander was also injured during the incident, he was wounded by the attacker’s gunfire, but his life is not in danger.<\/p>\n

The man was shot in the torso and is in stable condition at the hospital, according to Secret Service officials. He has been tentatively identified as a 45-year-old man who previously lived in Maryland and Texas.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers are also investigating whether he might have tried to break into the White House.<\/p>\n

No Secret Service personnel were injured. An investigation into the full circumstances of the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n

It is also reported that US Vice President J.D. Vance’s motorcade was passing nearby at the time of the incident. Due to the situation, its route was quickly changed for safety reasons.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump was at the White House at the time, speaking at an event in the East Room, when the first reports of the shooting emerged.<\/p>\n

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A shooting involving the US Secret Service occurred near the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 4 near the Washington Monument, when law enforcement officers opened fire on a gunman. This is reported by PBS and CNN. According to US media, Secret Service officers spotted a suspicious man with a gun while patrolling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1389944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1389963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}