Man barges into White House after jumping lawn fence
September 20, 2014 -- Updated 0441 GMT (1241 HKT)
Source: CNN
Part of the White House
was evacuated after a disturbance was initially detected on the North
Lawn, according to a CNN reporter who was among those hustled from the
building.
The first family was not at the White House at the time, but other people were.
President Obama had left just four minutes earlier with his daughters via helicopter from the South Lawn to visit Camp David.
The suspect, 42-year-old
Omar Gonzalez of Copperas Cove, Texas, was apprehended just after making
it inside the doors. He was taken to George Washington Medical Center
for a medical evaluation, Leary said.
Gonzalez was known to
Secret Service, said an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official would not say how or why. He had not been arrested by the
Secret Service before.
"He appeared to
responding officers to be unarmed, and that turned out to be true. He
ignored officers' calls for him to stop and ran towards the White
House," Leary said.
It's unclear how Gonzalez made his way onto the grounds.
White House evacuated after fence jumped
A CNN crew saw Secret Service agents standing over what appeared to be a man on the North Portico.
A man believed to be the suspect was later seen being loaded onto an ambulance.
More than an hour later, Secret Service agents and dogs were seen standing near where the disturbance occurred.
CNN White House producer
Becky Brittain said she has never been evacuated off White House
grounds in her nine years of reporting there.
"This time they were very serious about getting us all out of the White House very quickly," she said.
CNN's Steve Brusk contributed to this report.
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