The Secret Service shot and wounded an armed man on Monday afternoon just south of the White House in a burst of gunfire that also grazed a young bystander in an area packed with pedestrians, officials said.<\/p>\n
There was no indication that the man, who was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, was targeting anyone in the executive complex, Chris McDonald, a congressional affairs official with the Secret Service, wrote in an email to Congress after the episode.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump was not in any danger, and there is currently no known nexus between the incident and the White House,\u201d Mr. McDonald wrote.<\/p>\n
A motorcade with Vice President JD Vance had passed through the area \u2014 a heavily trafficked route for official vehicles, as well as people visiting the nearby Washington Monument \u2014 shortly before the confrontation took place, officials told reporters.<\/p>\n
The condition of the armed man, who was not identified, is not known. A firearm was recovered at the scene. A 15-year-old boy who was shot was being treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, officials said. Matt Quinn, the deputy director of the Secret Service, told reporters that investigators think the boy was shot by the gunman, but he later appeared to hedge his earlier statement when asked again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll let the doctors figure that out,\u201d Mr. Quinn said during a news conference near the scene.<\/p>\n
No law enforcement officials were injured.<\/p>\n
The episode began around 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of 15th Street Southwest and Independence Avenue, when agents walked up to a man \u201cwho appeared to be carrying a weapon,\u201d Mr. McDonald wrote.<\/p>\n
As they approached, he ran off and shot at them, Mr. Quinn told reporters.<\/p>\n
The agents fired back and then apprehended the man, he said.<\/p>\n