{"id":73074,"date":"2026-05-05T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/secret-service-shoots-alleged-gunman-near-national-mall-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:56:08","slug":"secret-service-shoots-alleged-gunman-near-national-mall-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/secret-service-shoots-alleged-gunman-near-national-mall-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service Shoots Alleged Gunman Near National Mall in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected armed gunman was shot by federal law enforcement near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and taken into custody with non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials. A teenaged bystander believed to be a tourist was also hit and grazed by the ricochet of a bullet, according to a federal official. Shortly before, Vice President JD Vance\u2019s motorcade had just passed by the area where the gunfire erupted. NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected armed gunman was shot by federal law enforcement near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and taken into custody with non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials. A teenaged bystander believed to be a tourist was also hit and grazed by the ricochet of a bullet, according to a federal official. Shortly before, Vice President &#8230; <a title=\"Secret Service Shoots Alleged Gunman Near National Mall in DC\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/secret-service-shoots-alleged-gunman-near-national-mall-in-dc\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Secret Service Shoots Alleged Gunman Near National Mall in DC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}