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Security alert at White House after shots fired Suspect in custody after active shooting at the White House
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The White House has put out a "red alert" after reports of an active shooter in the vicinity have emerged. A male suspect has been shot by Secret Service and is in a critical condition after he brandished a gun in the vicinity of the White House.
The president is not on the property, according to news reports. The man, not yet identified, was shot in the abdomen by one uniformed officer and the scene was secured.
Staff at the White House have been put on lockdown after shots were fired outside the north entrance. US Park Police tweeted that a shooting occured after 2pm on West Executive Drive, near 17th Strreet and Pennsylvania Avenue North West. The suspect was taken to hospital.
A suspect is "down and in custody", according to CNN. He was reported to have "brandished" a weapon just outside the White House gates.
It is not yet clear whether the suspect was shooting outside the grounds or into the White House grounds from a secured area. US Park Police tweeted that a shooting occured after 2pm on West Executive Drive, near 17th Strreet and Pennsylvania Avenue North West in Washington DC.
The government building has dealt with fence-jumpers in the past. Secret Service put out a "red alert", but the lockdown was lifted at around 4pm on Friday, two hours after the incident.
  President Barack Obama was not on the property, according to news reports.
More to follow... The 19th-century government building has dealt with mulitple security incidents in the past, including fence-jumpers and a man who shot a semi-automatic rifle at the White House in 1994 as president Bill Clinton was watching a football game.
The same year, a light plane circled above the building before crashing to the ground, killing the pilot.
In January, a man claiming to be the lovechild of JFK and Marilyn Munroe was foiled in his attempt to kidnap the president's two Portuguese Water dogs, Bo and Sunny.
Following an incident in 1974 when a man called Marshall Fields crashed his car through the White House gates, they were reinforced with steel.
In 2001, a man called Robert Pickett shot a gun outside the building, brandishing the weapon and sticking the gun barrel inside his mouth. Secret Service shot him in the knee.