Agents shoot, kill man trying to enter Mar-a-Lago: Secret Service
The United States Secret Service said it and a Palm Beach County Sheriffs deputy fatally shot a man after he attempted to unlawfully enter a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi said the man was seen by Mar-a-Lago’s north gate carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.
At a press conference, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the Secret Service and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy confronted the man, and they ordered him to put the weapon and fuel can down.
When the man put down the can, “he raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Bradshaw said. At that point, the Secret Service agents and deputy “fired their weapons to neutralize the threat.”
The man’s identity is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin. Trump was not in Florida at the time of the shooting, and was scheduled to be in Washington Sunday.
“In the middle of the night while most Americans were asleep, the United States Secret Service acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X. “Federal law enforcement are working 24/7 to keep our country safe and protect all Americans.”
Leavitt noted that the Department of Homeland Security is currently experiencing a shutdown.
This story is developing.
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