Secret Service says law enforcement fatally shot a man at Mar-a-Lago overnight - MS NOW

The U.S. Secret Service says a man was fatally shot early Sunday morning at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

The man, who was described as a “male in his early 20s,” was shot by Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy, the Secret Service said. The agency said he appeared to be carrying a shotgun and a fuel can near the resort’s front gate.

Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago overnight. He was at the White House in Washington. “In the middle of the night while most Americans were asleep, the United States Secret Service acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Sunday.

FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement on X Sunday that the FBI is “dedicating all necessary resources in the investigation of this morning’s incident at President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago – where an armed individual was shot and killed after unlawfully entering the perimeter.”

“He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with them, at which point he put down the gas can and raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said in a news conference on Sunday. Bradshaw said the man was shot after being told to drop the weapon.