Armed Mar-a-Lago Intruder Fatally Shot by Secret Service, Fla. Deputy
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An armed man was shot and killed early Sunday after entering the front gate of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach County.
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The suspect, a man in his early 20s, was carrying a gas can and armed with a shotgun, which he allegedly pointed at two Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy.
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The president was in Washington, D.C., at the time of the shooting, and the FBI is leading the investigation.
Source Miami Herald
An armed man who got onto the property of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach was shot dead overnight by U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy, the agencies said.
Rafael Barros, special agent in charge of the Secret Service in Florida, said President Trump wasn’t at Mar-a-Lago. According to the White House’s weekend schedule of activities, the president remained in Washington this weekend.
At a Sunday morning news conference, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said, around 1:30 a.m., two Secret Service agents and a PBSO deputy discovered a man in his early 20s was just inside Mar-a-Lago’s front gate carrying a gas can and a shotgun.
“The only words we said to him were, ‘Drop the items,’ which means the gas can and the shotgun,” Bradshaw said. “He put the gas can down and pointed the shotgun at the officers.”
The agents and deputy fired, Bradshaw said. The suspect was dead at the scene.
No information was given on the shot suspect. The FBI is leading the investigation into all aspects of the shooting — the suspect’s background, the trespass and the shooting — with Secret Service and PBSO backup. FBI Special Agent in Charge Brett Skiles asked any neighbors with surveillance video showing anything that “looks suspicious or out of place” to contact the FBI at 800-225-5324 or PBSO.
The Secret Service agents will be put on administrative leave, as is standard.
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