New Delhi, May 24 -- President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday evening to respond to a shooting near the White House, saying the suspect had "a violent history and possible obsession with our Country's most cherished structure." The gunman, identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best, died at a hospital after Secret Service officers returned fire near the gates of the White House. It was the third shooting incident in the vicinity of Trump in the space of a single month.

"Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House, who had a violent history and possible obsession with our Country's most cherished structure," Trump wrote. ...