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White House Shooter Taken Down by Secret Service | Crime Alert 05.27.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A deadly escalation of violence unfolded just outside the White
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  Speaker 1: House this past weekend, marking a terrifying trend of security
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  Speaker 1: breaches targeting the nation's capital. On Saturday evening, shortly after
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  Speaker 1: six pm, gunfire erupted near a security checkpoint in the
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  Speaker 1: area of seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. According to
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  Speaker 1: an official preliminary statement released by the US Secret Service
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  Speaker 1: on x an individual approach to the security post pulled
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  Speaker 1: a weapon directly out of his bag and opened fire
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  Speaker 1: on posted officers. Secret Service agents reacted instantly, returning fire
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  Speaker 1: and striking the suspect. The gunman was transported to a
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  Speaker 1: local area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. During
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  Speaker 1: the chaotic exchange, a bystander was also struck by gunfire,
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  Speaker 1: According to law enforcement officials speaking anonymously, it remains unclear
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  Speaker 1: whether that innocent bystander was hit by the suspect's initial
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  Speaker 1: rounds or caught in the crossfire during the subsequent exchange
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  Speaker 1: of bullets. Fortunately, no Secret Service personnel sustained injuries. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump was inside the White House at the time of
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  Speaker 1: the shooting, but officials confirm he was not impacted by
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  Speaker 1: the incident. The suspect has been officially identified as twenty
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  Speaker 1: one year old Nazir Best. This was far from Best's
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  Speaker 1: first interaction with White House Security District of Columbia court
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  Speaker 1: records reveal a deeply disturbing history of mental instability and
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  Speaker 1: unauthorized incursions. In June twenty twenty five, Best was involuntarily
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  Speaker 1: committed after obstructing vehicle entry to the White House complex.
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  Speaker 1: Just a month later, in July, he was arrested after
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  Speaker 1: attempting to breach a different White House checkpoint. During that encounter,
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  Speaker 1: he ignored direct commands from officers to stop, claimed he
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  Speaker 1: was Jesus Christ, and explicitly stated that he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be arrested. Court filings detailed that Best had been walking
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  Speaker 1: around the complex actively probing various entry posts to find
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  Speaker 1: a way inside. Following that July arrest, law enforcement requested
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  Speaker 1: a stay away order. While a pre trial stay away
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  Speaker 1: order was initially granted, a bench warrant was issued for
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  Speaker 1: Best in August after a notice of non compliance when
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  Speaker 1: he failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing. The
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  Speaker 1: scene outside the White House on Saturday night looked like
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  Speaker 1: a warzone. Journalists working inside the complex reported hearing a
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  Speaker 1: rapid succession of gunshots and were immediately ordered to seek
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  Speaker 1: shelter inside the press briefing room. In a social media post,
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  Speaker 1: FBI Director Cash Bettel confirmed that federal officers were actively
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  Speaker 1: responding to the active shooter situation on the sidewalk just
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  Speaker 1: outside the complex. Yellow crime scene tape cordoned off the area,
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  Speaker 1: while Secret Service investigators placed dozens of orange evidence markers
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  Speaker 1: across the pavement, alongside discarded medical supplies, including purple surgical
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  Speaker 1: gloves and emergency trauma kits. This fatal encounter marks the
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  Speaker 1: third time in just one month that gunfire has erupted
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  Speaker 1: in close proximity to the president. It follows in April
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth attempted assassination of President Trump as he attended
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  Speaker 1: the annual White House Correspondence Association dinner at a Washington hotel.
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  Speaker 1: In that case, Cole Thomas Allen of Torrance, California, recently
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  Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges and remains in
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  Speaker 1: federal custody. Just days later, on May fourth, secret Service
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  Speaker 1: officers shot another suspect forty five year old Michael Marks
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  Speaker 1: of Midland, Texas, after he opened fire near the Washington Monument,
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  Speaker 1: wounding a teenage bystander. More crime and justice news After this,
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  Speaker 1: A bizarre case of felony vandalism against a nationally recognized
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  Speaker 1: Washington d C. Bakery has ended in an arrest thanks
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  Speaker 1: to a father doing the right thing. Charles Joseph Ali,
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  Speaker 1: a resident of Rockville, Maryland, officially surrendered to authorities at
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  Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Police Department Second District station on Thursday. He
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  Speaker 1: did so alongside his attorney and his own father, who
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  Speaker 1: had shockingly recognized Ali from surveillance footage broadcast by police.
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  Speaker 1: Court documents revealed that Ali is charged with felony destruction
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  Speaker 1: of property after he allegedly hurled a heavy metal beer
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  Speaker 1: keg straight through the front glass window of Georgetown Cupcake
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, May sixteenth, around eleven thirty pm. Appearing in
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  Speaker 1: court on Friday, Ali entered a plea of not guilty,
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  Speaker 1: while the judge ordered his release ahead of trial. A
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  Speaker 1: strict stay away order was implemented, barring him from going
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near the establishment. Ali is also a prime suspect
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  Speaker 1: in an April vandalism incident at a separate nearby business,
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  Speaker 1: though charges have not yet been filed in that case.
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  Speaker 1: Georgetown Cupcake, which skyrocketed to international fame on the reality
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  Speaker 1: show d C. Cupcakes, is owned by sisters Sophie La
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  Speaker 1: Montaigne and Catherine Berman. In a joint statement released to
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  Speaker 1: the media, the sisters defiantly stated, our shop is open.
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  Speaker 1: We will keep doing what we have always done. Plywood
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  Speaker 1: was quickly erected over the shattered entrance, allowing the bakery
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  Speaker 1: to reopen just hours after the assault. However, the emotional
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  Speaker 1: toll on the staff remained severe. Catherine Berman told Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Digital that a lone female employee was working inside
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  Speaker 1: the shop at eleven thirty pm when she came face
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  Speaker 1: to face with the suspect. The terrified employee fled to
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  Speaker 1: the back of the store to hide as the front
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  Speaker 1: entrance was completely demolished. Berman noted that the worker remains
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  Speaker 1: deeply shaken and psychologically traumatized by the event. Surveillance footage
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  Speaker 1: captured the suspect trying desperately to rip a metal trash
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  Speaker 1: can out of the curb, before failing, walking around the
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  Speaker 1: block and stealing a metal beer keg. Sitting outside a
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  Speaker 1: nearby home to use as a weapon. Berman stated, he's violent,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we live in a civil society where
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  Speaker 1: there's an expectation for us to respect each other, our property,
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  Speaker 1: and clearly he didn't do any of those. Thanks. Allie
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  Speaker 1: is scheduled to return to the courtroom on June eleventh
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  Speaker 1: for the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be sure
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Sidney Sylvani