Nazir Best is the name of the shooter in the White House shooting, according to US media, and he was 21 years old. The young man, from Maryland, near Washington, had a history of psychiatric problems and was known to the Secret Service: he had attempted to infiltrate the White House grounds again the day before, telling guards he was “Jesus Christ” and wanted to be arrested, ABC sources said.
Reed Adrian, a Canadian tourist, told Agence France-Presse that he was in that section of the US capital when “we heard 20 to 25 bursts of gunfire, which looked like fireworks, but they were gunshots, and the whole world started running.”
Police immediately blocked access to the presidency. National Guard soldiers prevented an AFP journalist from entering the area. Journalists in the northern grassy area reported via X that they were ordered to run for cover in the presidency press room.
ABC News correspondent Selina Wang was about to record video she intended for use on social media sites when the gunfire began to ring out. She recorded the gunfire on her cellphone, lying on the ground, as the video she released via X shows.
“It sounded like dozens of shots,” she noted.
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