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Suspect in custody after active shooting at the White House | |
(35 minutes later) | |
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 man, not yet identified, was shot in the abdomen by one uniformed officer and the scene was secured. | |
The suspect was taken to hospital. | |
He was reported to have "brandished" a weapon just outside the White House gates. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. |