Armed man is shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Seashore Sheriff says : NPR

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Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP/AP U.S. Secret Service brokers and a deputy with the Palm Seashore Sheriff's Workplace shot and killed a person coming into President Trump's personal membership Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seashore, Fla., early Sunday morning, officers mentioned.

Trump was in Washington on the time.

In a put up on X, Karoline Leavitt, the White Home spokeswoman, praised the Secret Service's motion: "In the course of the night time whereas most Individuals have been asleep, america Secret Service acted shortly and decisively to neutralize a loopy particular person, armed with a gun and a gasoline canister, who intruded President Trump's house."

"Federal legislation enforcement are working 24/7 to maintain our nation protected and shield all Individuals," she wrote. "It is shameful and reckless that Democrats have chosen to close down their Division."

Democrats are negotiating with the White Home on a deal to reopen the Division of Homeland Safety, which oversees the Secret Service, and has been with out funding for greater than every week, in trade for modifications to immigration enforcement operations.

Earlier, Palm Seashore County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw informed reporters the person — described to be in his early 20s — made it to the "inside perimeter" of Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gasoline can earlier than brokers stopped him.

"They confronted a white male that was carrying a gasoline can and a shotgun," Bradshaw mentioned. "He was ordered to drop these two items of kit that he had with him. At which era, he put down the gasoline can, raised the shotgun to a taking pictures place."

Two Secret Service brokers and a sheriff's deputy then fired on and killed the person, Bradshaw mentioned. The person died on the scene.

Secret Service Communications Director Anthony Guglielmi mentioned in a put up that no brokers or officers have been injured, and nobody the Secret Service protects was current at Mar-a-Lago in the course of the taking pictures.