{"id":216070,"date":"2016-05-21T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216070"},"modified":"2016-05-21T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T11:51:15","slug":"white-house-shooting-secret-service-stops-armed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216070","title":{"rendered":"White House shooting: Secret Service stops armed man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The Secret Service has shot an armed man outside the White House, according to US officials.<\/p>\n<p>Police told ABC News that a man brandished a weapon at a security checkpoint near the building and was shot in the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The White House was briefly placed on lockdown after the shooting on Friday. President Barack Obama was playing golf in Maryland at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The man was transported to hospital with critical injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-President Joe Biden was in the White House at the time. He was taken to a &#8220;secure area&#8221; during the incident, White House officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers gave numerous verbal commands for the subject to stop and drop the firearm,&#8221; security agencies said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was shot once by a Secret Service agent and taken into custody<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, based on a preliminary investigation, there is no known nexus to terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/C599\/production\/_89758505_wh21.jpg\" alt=\"Secret Service guard\" width=\"647\" height=\"364\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>The White House has seen a number of security incidents in recent years, prompting changes at the executive complex.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Secret Service caught an intruder climbing over the White House fence.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Iraq War veteran Omar Gonzalez jumped the White House fence and ran into the building with a knife. Also that year, a toddler squeezed through the gates of the fence and was caught on the lawn.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, one man tried to crash a jeep filled with knives and bullets into a security gate.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ortega-Hernandez believed God had given him a personal mission to attack the White House, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Service has shot an armed man outside the White House, according to US officials. Police told ABC News that a man brandished a weapon at a security checkpoint near the building and was shot in the stomach. The White House was briefly placed on lockdown after the shooting on Friday. President Barack Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":216071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}