just south of the White House<\/a> on Monday afternoon in an exchange of gunfire that also grazed a young bystander in an area packed with pedestrians, officials said.<\/p>\nThe suspect, who was shot by Secret Service agents, was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. Mr. Marx has yet to face charges. No law enforcement officials were injured, and there was no immediate sign that the man was targeting anyone in the executive complex, according to Chris McDonald, a congressional affairs official with the Secret Service. <\/p>\n
The episode began about 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 in an email to Congress on Monday.<\/p>\n
Matt Quinn, the deputy director of the Secret Service, told reporters that as the agents approached, Mr. Marx ran off and shot at them. The agents fired back and apprehended him, Mr. Quinn said. Shortly before the commotion rang out, Vice President JD Vance passed the scene of the shooting in his motorcade, but there was no clear indication that the suspect was targeting the vice president, Mr. Quinn added.<\/p>\n
A firearm was recovered at the scene, and a 15-year-old boy hit by gunfire was treated for a non-life-threatening wound, officials said.<\/p>\n
The shooting took place a little more than a week after a gunman stormed a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner<\/a> and shot a Secret Service agent in an attack that officials said was targeted at administration officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of shooting at Secret Service agents on the National Mall in Washington expressed hostility toward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15464,11429,8,13678,15463,15040,9,3843,7,11259,1461],"class_list":{"0":"post-25237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-2026-shooting","9":"tag-dc","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-marx","12":"tag-michael-may-4","13":"tag-national-mall-washington","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-secret-service","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","18":"tag-washington-dc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116527961418432983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}