In the United States, a person who opened fire on a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the Secret Service said.

 

The law enforcement agency said in a preliminary statement posted on X that the person in the area of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue pulled a weapon from his bag and began firing. 

 

The officers returned fire, hitting the suspect, who was taken to a hospital where he later died, the Secret Service said. The suspect was identified as 21-year-old man, said a law enforcement official. 

 

A bystander was also 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.

 

US President Donald Trump was inside the White House at that time. 

 

It was the third time in the past month that gunfire has broken out near the president following incidents at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April and near the Washington Monument earlier in May.