Secret Service shoots, kills armed man entering Mar-a-Lago

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Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Secret Service early Sunday fatally shot a man who was trying to access President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort while appearing to carry a shotgun and a gas can.

The individual, a man in his early 20s, attempted to access the property from its north gate and entered the secure perimeter before he was shot and killed, the Secret Service said in a post on X.

Although Trump often spends the weekends at his West Palm Beach, Fla., resort, he was in Washington, D.C., this weekend and, according to officials, no other protectees were at the property either.

"U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy confronted the individual and shots were fired by law enforcement during the encounter," Anthony Guglielmi, communications chief for the Secret Service, said in the post.

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Guglielmi said the man was observed around 1:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday morning making his way into the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago.

Agents and PBSO encountered the man carrying the shotgun and gas can, and ordered him to put down the gun and can.

He put the can down, but then raised the shotgun into a "shooting position," at which time the agents and deputy opened fire on the man, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a press conference on Sunday morning.

"He is deceased at the scene," Bradshaw said.

Though the identity of the man is being withheld until his family is notified, Bradshaw described him as a White man.

The Secret Service said that no law enforcement personnel were injured in the incident and that during the investigation, the two federal agents were been placed on routine administrative leave.

The FBI is the lead investigative agency in the case, authorities said.

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