Posted on 05/24/2026 5:09:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News Digital the male gunman who allegedly opened fire with a pistol Saturday near the White House in Washington, D.C., and was fatally shot by the U.S. Secret Service, has been identified as Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland.
At about 6 p.m. local time, the suspect allegedly approached a Secret Service checkpoint near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, removed a weapon from his bag and began firing at posted officers, a Secret Service spokesperson said.
Best, who allegedly had prior encounters with the Secret Service and a history of mental health issues, fired about three shots toward the executive mansion before he was taken down by Secret Service agents, according to a senior administration official with direct knowledge of the incident.
The White House was placed on lockdown, which was later lifted.
As many as 30 shots were reportedly heard in the direction of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The senior official said the suspect never got inside the general perimeter of the White House grounds.
Best was detained by the Secret Service on June 26, 2025, for flagging down agents and making threats, and again on July 10, 2025, for entering a restricted area, Fox News has learned.
All members of the Secret Service were reported safe, though one uniformed agent was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
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black and mental......its the last will hear of this
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“As many as 30 shots were reportedly heard”
Hopefully Sean Curran has finally given the order to permanently neutralize the threat.
He shot three rounds. The rest of the 20-30 were returned fire.
This guy must have looked like Swiss cheese at the hospital.
I hate to say it but this outcome needs to be repeated every time this scenario arises.
It needs to be known far and wide that if you try anything like this you will suffer the same fate.
Video
ABC News reporter ducks from the White House North Lawn as ~20-30 shots was fired.
https://rumble.com/shorts/v7aajuu
I enjoy the old and a lot of newer movies where a thousand rounds are fired - not one bullet hole anywhere, not one flat tire, not one human hit. Maybe that’s what happened.
I guess the Secret Service might be a version of Imperial Stormtroopers. LOL
If that’s the video I’m pretty sure it is, she has the survival instincts of a lemming.
Good riddance to the untreatable criminal nitwit.
Until the statue is completed.
Has his fambly come forth trying to claim the ghetto lottery yet ?
Lefty Leftoids will agitate the SS used too much force.
They will claim a social worker would have produced better outcomes
Actually, inferior.
He is said to be mental to hide the inferiority
I wonder how many times he was hit ?
One report said they heard 20-30 shots . Could be 2-3 agents firing .
It would interesting to see a layout of where the agents were, were the perpetrator was , the distances how many rounds , etc
Well, I guess Milli Vanilli won’t be getting back together...
Gunman dead. No victims. GREAT!
OMG! What will the Sunday school class do now that their teacher has been killed?
His “Predator” hairdo was on a little too tight.
How about the 1960s and 1970s movies shown on TV, butchered to remove “violence” in which a good guy fires ONE SHOT and the bad guy falls with four bullet holes in him.
AI says he believed he was the modern incarnation of Jesus. The MSM may keep the story going if they can put an anti-Christianity spin on it.
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