An armed man was shot and killed by law enforcement agents in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 22 after allegedly breaching a secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago, according to U.S. Secret Service.
The man was seen by the north gate of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property at about 1:30 a.m. local time, carrying what the Secret Service said in a news release "appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can."
Authorities said two Secret Service agents and a local Palm Beach County officer confronted the man before law enforcement fatally shot him. No agents were injured in the incident. Nobody who receives protection from the Secret Service was present at the time of the shooting, Secret Service communication chief Anthony Guglielmi said in the release.
Trump is at the White House, according to his official schedule.
In a press conference, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the security detail at Mar-a-Lago detected the man had entered the property's inner perimeter near the entrance, leading a sheriff's deputy and two Secret Service agents to go to the area and investigate.
