ABC News reporter dives for cover during shooting near White House
Suspect identified after shooting near White House
Madeleine Rivera reported live from Washington, D.C., about the shooting incident near the White House in which a gunman allegedly opened fire and was killed. Retired Secret Service agent Jeff James provides expert analysis of the case.
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An ABC News White House correspondent was engrossed in reporting on the White House North Lawn in Washington, D.C., Saturday evening after a gunman opened fire on a Secret Service checkpoint as President Donald Trump was working on Iran peace talks at the White House.
In a video posted on X by ABC News correspondent Selina Wang, Wang can be seen trying to hide as an off-camera voice alerts the crew as gunfire erupts.
video has now gone viral, garnering over 10.5 million views.
Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that the male gunman who allegedly opened fire near the White House in Washington, D.C. and was fatally shot by the U.S. Secret Service on Saturday was Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland. (Reproduced from Associated Press | New York Post)
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While Wang was recording a social media report about Trump’s claim that an Iran peace deal was imminent, apparent gunfire rang out, forcing Wang and his crew to quickly hide.
Wang later wrote to X that he heard what “sounded like dozens of gunshots.”
The Secret Service said the attack began near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW shortly after 6 p.m.
“Secret Service officers responded by opening fire on the suspect, who was transported to an area hospital and later died,” the Secret Service said in a statement reported by ABC News.
An armed Secret Service agent raised the alarm outside the White House in Washington, D.C., after gunshots were heard on Saturday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
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A bystander was also injured in the incident, but the authorities did not say who fired the bullet that hit the person or clarified the person’s condition. No Secret Service agents were injured. Trump was at the White House at the time and was briefed on the attack.
The gunman reportedly fired several shots into the Secret Service booth before Uniformed Division officers returned fire.
Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that the gunman was Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland.
The FBI and other federal law enforcement agents responded to a shooting near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)
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The Secret Service confirmed that Trump was at the White House at the time of the attack. A White House spokesman said the president was there but was “unimpressed.”
Trump praised law enforcement in his Truth Social post.
“Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement agencies for the swift and professional action taken this evening near the White House against a gunman with a violent past and possible obsession with our nation’s most treasured structure,” Trump said.
Map of the Secret Service’s assault on Saturday’s White House security checkpoint. (Fox News)
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Trump also linked the attack to last month’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack.
“This incident comes a month after the White House Correspondent’s Dinner attack,” Trump said. “And it just goes to show how important it is for all future Presidents to have the safest and most secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C. Our Nation’s National Security demands it!”
Federal agents assisted in the Secret Service response, FBI Director Kash Patel said in an X post.
“We will inform the public as much as possible,” Patel said.
ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
