the First light on the incident spilled the American leader, who after some time returned to the reporters. He said that has no information about the motives of the assailant. “Perhaps it even has nothing to do with me,” said trump.
some time Later, more detailed information was published on his Twitter page itself US Secret service. “Around 17:53 today 51-year-old man approached the officer of the Secret service, who stood at his post on the corner of 17th street and Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White house – said in the text of the official statement. – The suspect approached the officer and said that he has a weapon. Then the suspect turned aggressively ran towards the officer and pulled an item of clothing. After he took a knee, taking a hand posture, as if about to fire the weapon. The Secret service officer… shot him in the torso”.
Before sending to the hospital, the attacker was given first aid. According to the Department of fire and emergency medical care of the district of Columbia, whose members are almost immediately called to the scene, the suspect received a severe and possibly even fatal injuries, reports the Associated Press.
Immediately after the incident, all inputs and outputs in the White house blocked. According to Tom Sullivan, the head of the Secret service, providing security the main residence of U.S. presidents, the suspect damaged the fence of the complex and didn’t break on its territory. Law enforcement agencies have started investigation and will soon check to see whether the perpetrator of mental disorders. At the same time, the division of professional responsibility of the Secret service will examine in detail the actions of the officer who opened fire.
Note that in the past the White house repeatedly fired at the attackers. For example, in 1994, Francisco Martin Duran fired at the building 29 bullets from a semiautomatic rifle. Twisted it’s not even intelligence agents, and ordinary tourists passing by. As a result of firing nobody suffered. Later, Duran was sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges of attempted murder of the then American President bill Clinton, who at the time of the attack was in the White house.
History repeated itself in 2011, when the building opened fire Oscar Ortega-Hernandez. The criminal shot from a Kalashnikov directly from the passenger seat of his car, which later tried to escape. According to relatives of the attacker, shortly before the accident, he became obsessed with the figure of Barack Obama, who at that time held the post of President of the United States. Ortega-Hernandez called the American leader “the Antichrist” and said that he wanted to hurt him. However, BAM in the White house the offender is not caught – the head of state at that time was out of town. In the end, Ortega-Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of several crimes – but, notably, the assassination attempt on the President’s life is not among them.