September 29, 2014
(Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service detained a possible shooter after a report that shots were fired on Monday near the Ethiopian embassy in Washington, a spokesman for the agency said.
The possible shots were reported at about 12:15 p.m. EDT and there have been no injuries reported, spokesman Brian Leary said in an emailed statement.
Washington police, State Department officials and Secret Service agents are on the scene, the spokesman said. Repeated phone calls to the embassy went unanswered.
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(NBC) A man brandishing and firing a gun was arrested by Secret Service agents Monday morning outside the Ethiopian Embassy in northwest Washington, D.C.
In video provided to News4 by ESAT TV, the man can be seen holding the gun in the air, as people around him on a plaza outside the Embassy attempt to talk him down.
At one point, the man lowers the gun and a shot is heard. However, police said no one was hurt in the incident.
The report of shots fired came in at 12:15 p.m. Uniformed officers from the Secret Service responded and detained a person they said was “believed to be the shooter.”
D.C.’s Metropolitan Police and the State Department also responded to the scene. sourse ecdef
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