WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Law enforcement authorities are responding to shots fired near the White House grounds.
Journalists working there Saturday reported hearing a series of gunshots and were told to seek shelter inside the press briefing room. U.S. Secret Service officers kept them from leaving.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or information about the circumstances.
On X, the Secret Service said it was 鈥渁ware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW鈥� 鈥� one block from the White House 鈥� and was 鈥渨orking to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground.鈥� It said it will have an update shortly.
In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel said officers were responding to shots fired and said he would 鈥渦pdate the public as we鈥檙e able.鈥�
President was inside the White House at the time.
In a post shared on X, Selina Wang, the senior White House correspondent for ABC News, shared dramatic video of the moment she said she heard what 鈥渟ounded like dozens of gunshots鈥� and ducked for cover. Writing that she had been performing a task that reporters at the White House do day in and day out 鈥� filming themselves on a cellphone, for a social media post 鈥� Wang鈥檚 video shows her speaking for a few seconds about Trump鈥檚 statements earlier Saturday about a potential Iran deal.
As the sounds of gunfire are heard in the background, Wang鈥檚 eyes grow wider, and she ducks down in the media tent, which is among those situated in a line along the White House driveway where broadcasters film their reports. On X, Wang鈥檚 video had been shared thousands of times as of Saturday evening, and viewed at least 3 million times.
The Metropolitan Police Department said on its X Account that the Secret Service was working the scene and cautioned people to avoid. The scene is near where a gunman ambushed two members of the West Virginia National Guard last November.
U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from her wounds. Andrew Wolfe, then 24, was critically wounded. Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been charged in that incident.
The gunfire Saturday comes nearly a month after what law enforcement authorities said was an attempted assassination of the president on April 25 as he attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at a Washington hotel. Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, to charges that he attempted to kill Trump and remains in federal custody.
Following that scare, Secret Service officers shot a suspect they said had fired at officers near the Washington Monument, also near the White House. Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, was charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in connection with the May 4 shooting. A teenage bystander was wounded in that incident.
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Associated Press writers Gary Fields, Meg Kinnard and Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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