A 51-year-old Maryland man who was shot by a Secret Service officer near the White House on Monday, prompting agents to briefly remove President Donald Trump …
A 51-year-old Maryland man who was shot by a Secret Service officer near the White House on Monday, prompting agents to briefly remove President Donald Trump from a press briefing, is being charged with assaulting a police officer. D. C. police identified the suspect Tuesday as Myron Berryman of Forestville, Maryland, who was listed in stable condition at a local hospital. Shortly before 6 p.m., according to the Secret Service, Berryman approached a uniformed Secret Service officer standing at his post about a block from the White House grounds and told the officer that he had a weapon and intended to use it. « The suspect then turned around, ran aggressively towards the officer, and in a drawing motion, withdrew an object from his clothing, » the Secret Service said in a statement. « He then crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon. » Berryman was shot twice in the torso, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to comment publicly. No firearm was found on Berryman, and the official did not identify the object that Berryman pulled from his clothing.
