{"id":25478,"date":"2016-05-21T05:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T05:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-secret-service-shoots-armed-man-outside-white\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T05:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T05:04:19","slug":"us-secret-service-shoots-armed-man-outside-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-secret-service-shoots-armed-man-outside-white\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secret Service shoots armed man outside White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Agent says man approached a White House checkpoint with a firearm and refused to drop it, prompting the shooting.}<\/p>\n<p>A US Secret Service agent shot a man carrying a firearm near the White House, after the man refused to drop his weapon, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into custody and transported to a local hospital, agency spokesman David Iacovetti said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was shot once by a Secret Service agent and taken into custody,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Secret Service recovered a firearm at the scene. Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers and an agent provided medical aid to the subject.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man did not enter the White House complex and no law enforcement personnel or innocent bystanders were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The checkpoint is on the outside perimeter of the secure area around the executive mansion in Washington DC, and is accessible on that side to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The White House security alert was lifted soon after everyone inside was accounted for.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12375 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4a6f24dc3d7e403eabbc74ebcef2cb5d_18.jpg\" alt=\"US President Barack Obama was not home when the incident occurred\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Agent says man approached a White House checkpoint with a firearm and refused to drop it, prompting the shooting.} A US Secret Service agent shot a man carrying a firearm near the White House, after the man refused to drop his weapon, the agency said. The man was taken into custody and transported to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}