Secret Service agents shot and killed a man trying to enter President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
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U.S. Secret Service shot and killed armed man who entered the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago
By The Associated Press
February 22, 2026 9:07 am
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service announced Sunday that an armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
Although Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House during this incident.
The name of the person who was shot has not been released. According to the Secret Service, he was “observed by the north gate of the Mar-a-Lago property carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”-
He was shot by Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff deputy, the age
The man was seen by the north gate of President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago property at about 1:30 a.m. local time, carrying what the Secret Service said in a news release “appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”
Authorities said two Secret Service agents and a local Palm Beach County officer confronted the man before law enforcement fatally shot him. No agents were injured in the incident. Nobody who receives protection from the Secret Service was present at the time of the shooting, Secret Service communication chief Anthony Guglielmi said in the release.
Trump is at the White House, according to his official schedule.
In a press conference, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the security detail at Mar-a-Lago detected the man had entered the property’s inner perimeter near the entrance, leading a sheriff’s deputy and two Secret Service agents to go to the area and investigate.
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