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| A shooting has been reported outside the White House, according to US Park Police. | |
| Police told ABC News that a Secret Service agent shot an armed man at a security checkpoint near the building. | |
| The White House was briefly placed on lockdown in response to the shooting. President Barack Obama was golfing in Maryland at the time. | |
| The victim is being transported to a local hospital with critical injuries, authorities have said. | |
| Vice President Joe Biden was in the White House at the time. | |
| The White House has seen a number of security incidents in recent years, prompting changes at the executive complex. | |
| In 2014, Iraq War veteran Omar Gonzalez jumped the White House fence and ran into the building with a knife. | |
| Another man, Joseph Caputo, scaled the White House fence on Thanksgiving of last year. | |
| In 2011, Oscar Ortega-Hernandez shot at the White House and was charged with attempting to assassinate Mr Obama or a member of his staff. | |
| Mr Ortega-Hernandez believed God had given him a personal mission to attack the White House, law enforcement sources said. |