Brief lockdown has ended after Secret Service returned fire and bystander on the street was shot
The White House was briefly locked down on Saturday after a sustained volley of gunshots was heard by reporters for multiple outlets.
In a statement provided to Fox News, the US Secret Service said that, shortly after 6pm local time, a man approached a checkpoint at a White House gate near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, took out a pistol and fired three shots. Secret Service officers, who protect the US president and vice-president, returned fire, the agency said, “striking the suspect, who was transported to an area hospital, where he later died”.
