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Security
Scare

Secret Service agents stands on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 20, 2016, after the White House was placed on security alert after
shooting on street outside.

                                                                                                                                                                                                       (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

   Secret Service Shoots Man with Gun Outside White House

BEN NUCKOLS                  placed on a security alert   peatedly ordered the man       ered at the scene, Iacov-     House complex and was
Associated Press             after the shooting, which    to drop his gun, but the       etti said.                    secured during the lock-
WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S.       happened within view         man ignored those com-         The man was in critical con-  down, his office said.
Secret Service officer shot  of sightseers as sidewalks   mands, according to a          dition when he was trans-     The lockdown was lifted
a man with a gun who ap-     were crowded with fami-      statement from David Ia-       ported, a D.C. Fire and EMS   about an hour after the
proached a checkpoint        lies, school groups and      covetti, a Secret Service      spokesman said.               shooting.
outside the White House on   government workers.          deputy assistant director.     President Barack Obama        The gunman never made
Friday afternoon and re-     The armed man ap-            The officer fired one shot at  was away playing golf at      it inside the White House
fused to drop his weapon,    proached the checkpoint      the man, who was taken         the time,                     complex, and no one else
the Secret Service said.     on E Street shortly after 3  to a hospital for treatment,   but Vice President Joe        was injured, the Secret Ser-
The White House was briefly  p.m., and the officer re-    and the gun was recov-         Biden was in the White        vice said.q