The Secret Service shot a man during an armed confrontation near the White House Sunday, the agency announced.
The incident unfolded just after midnight, about a block west of the White House near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Police sources identified the suspect as 27-year-old Andrew Dawson, of Indiana. Agents said he was armed with a firearm and a knife when he was confronted by agents investigating an earlier alert.
Indiana police had notified D.C. authorities that Dawson was driving to the Washington, D.C. area and was “suicidal.” Intelligence bulletins also indicated that the suspect wanted to commit “suicide by cop.”
Members of the Secret Service encountered the man’s parked car near 17th and F Streets, NW, and saw a person matching his description nearby.
They told him to drop the weapons, but Johnson did not comply. That’s when the Secret Service says Dawson “reached toward his waist,” so they opened fire, Fox News learned.
“As officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued, during which shots were fired by our personnel,” the agency wrote in a statement.
“The suspect was rushed to an area hospital and his condition is unknown.”
There were no reported injuries to Secret Service personnel.
The Metropolitan Police Department will lead an investigation into the shooting since they are the primary agency responsible for use-of-force incidents within the District of Columbia, the Secret Service said.
President Donald Trump was not in the White House at the time, per his schedule. The president is expected to leave his Mar-a-Lago estate later today and return to the capital.
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