Shots Fired Near Vance’s Motorcade A Teenager Was Hit And Washington Is Asking a Very Uncomfortable Question.
Breaking Developing U.S. Politics · May 5, 2026
An armed man opened fire on Secret Service agents near the Washington Monument Monday afternoon — minutes after the Vice President’s motorcade passed through. A juvenile bystander was wounded. The suspect is alive. Motive: still unknown.
~3:30 PM Time of the shooting, Monday
1 Juvenile bystander hit, non-life-threatening
0 Secret Service officers injured
It was a Monday afternoon on the National Mall — tourists, families, the kind of ordinary Washington backdrop that exists just steps from the most guarded address in the world. Then came the gunfire.
At around 3:30 PM, Secret Service officers shot an armed man near the Washington Monument at 15th Street SW and Independence Avenue SW after he opened fire on agents. Moments before the shooting, officers noticed a suspicious individual who appeared to have a firearm. The man ran when uniformed Secret Service police approached him, then fired toward the officers. They returned fire, striking and wounding him.
