The White House was briefly locked down, after U.S. Secret Service officers shot an armed person near the White House, according to multiple reports.
The shooting happened around 15th Street and Independence Avenue, which is a little over a half mile from the White House and close to the Washington Monument.
According to Fox News Digital, Secret Service officers engaged the individual after the person pulled a gun.
The incident comes just over a week after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner with guns and knives. Cole Tomas Allen has been charged in that incident, in which a Secret Service officer was wounded.
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