Bystander in serious condition after fatal shooting near White House checkpoint
Secret Service officers returned fire after the suspect opened fire toward a White House checkpoint, and a bystander was hospitalized in serious condition.
- On Saturday, 21-year-old Nasire Best fired toward a White House security checkpoint around 6 p.m. before Secret Service officers fatally shot him. One bystander sustained injuries during the exchange.
- Best, a 2023 Dundalk High School graduate from Maryland, had previously been arrested near the White House last July for attempting to enter restricted grounds. He ignored officers' commands and claimed to be Jesus Christ.
- President Donald Trump used the incident to lobby Congress for $1 billion in security upgrades, including a ballroom on the East Wing site. Trump claimed the suspect had a "possible obsession with our country's most cherished structure."
- The unidentified bystander remained in serious but stable condition Sunday, with the Secret Service describing the gunshot wound as not life-threatening. No Secret Service agents were harmed.
- This marks the third shooting near the president in the past month, following an April attack at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner and a separate incident near the Washington Monument. The pattern intensifies concerns over rising political violence.
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