Mar-a-Lago: Secret Service shoots armed man at Trump’s estate

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Mar-a-Lago: Secret Service shoots armed man at Trump’s estate

The Secret Service said the man was observed carrying something that “appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”

U.S. Secret Service agents and a deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a man who had entered the secured grounds of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida early Sunday morning, the Secret Service said in a statement.Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.According to the statement, the man was in his early 20s. His identity is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin. The Secret Service said the man was observed carrying “something that appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”He was shot after Secret Service agents and the deputy confronted him, the statement said. No officers were injured.This article is being updated by our journalists as new information becomes available.