A Texas man was charged Wednesday in a shooting this week near the Washington Monument just after a motorcade carrying Vice President JD Vance passed.
Federal prosecutors have identified the suspect as Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas. Documents filed in U.S. District Court in D.C. include these moment-by-moment photographs of what happened.
At 3:38 p.m. on Monday, the motorcade carrying the vice president was leaving the White House, passing through the area of 15th Street and Independence Avenue in Southwest Washington, authorities say. Minutes later, a plainclothes U.S. Secret Service agent near the area noticed a man, who authorities later identified as Marx, wearing a gray shirt and black pants and appeared to be hiding a handgun in his waistband.
The Secret Service agent requested help, and uniformed Secret Service officers soon saw Marx walking along the path of the motorcade, according to an affidavit. He walked up to an intersection where bystanders gathered at a crosswalk. The officers began getting out of a car as the bystanders crossed the street.
The officers “gave verbal commands” to Marx, who began running.
As officers pursued, Marx reached into his waistband and drew his gun, authorities allege.
Marx reached the sidewalk on the other side of the street, turned and fired toward one of the officers, as well as in the direction of a juvenile passerby behind the officer, authorities say.
After he fired, authorities say, the passerby, whose age was not given, clutched his leg. The boy’s family realized he’d been shot.
Secret Service officers fired back at Marx, striking him in the hand, left arm and abdomen, and he collapsed. Investigators would find a Sig Sauer P365 near where he lay, authorities say.
Officers said Marx spit on them on them as they tried to give him first aid. While in the back of an ambulance, he said something to the effect of “F— the White House” and “Kill me, kill me, kill me,” authorities allege.
Marx faces charges of assaulting federal officers with a dangerous weapon, using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was found guilty of trafficking illegal drugs in Florida in 2011, according to the affidavit. A court docket did not immediately list an attorney for him.
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