WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month.
The law enforcement agency said in a statement posted on X that the man was in the area of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue when he “pulled a weapon from his bag” shortly after 6 p.m. EDT and began firing. Secret Service officers returned fire and hit the suspect, who died at a hospital, the agency said.
The suspect was identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best, said a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
With the way assassination attempts and violent events tied to the White House and Washington DC are escalating, I'm over here wondering when one of these folks is going to pull off a suicide bombing. We've already had a self-immolation, and with Donald and Congress content to ignore the cost of living crisis, it feels inevitable that violence is going to increase until someone gets lucky.
I'm more wondering why it keeps being lone gunmen instead of multiple.
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