{"id":41938,"date":"2026-04-05T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41938"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:52:57","slug":"secret-service-investigating-overnight-gunfire-near-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41938","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service investigating overnight gunfire near White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>The Secret Service said it is investigating overnight gunfire near the White House on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded shortly after midnight on Sunday to reports of gunfire in the vicinity of Lafayette Park, the Secret Service said in a statement. No injuries were reported, according to the statement, and a search of the park and surrounding area was conducted. A suspect was not located.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lafayette Park is located directly north of the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Trump is in Washington and is hosting a family Easter dinner at the White House on Sunday. White House operations remain normal, though a heightened security posture is in place, the Secret Service said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Road closures were initially in effect adjacent to the park. Chief of Communications for the Secret Service Anthony Guglielmi said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJGuglielmi\/status\/2040766860283555914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> on X after 8 a.m. that the closures had been lifted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remained active Sunday morning. The Secret Service said it&#8217;s seeking a possible vehicle and a person of interest, while coordinating with U.S. Park Police and Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Metropolitan Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials encouraged members of the public with information to call D.C. Police at 202-727-9099 or text 50411.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/secret-service-investigating-overnight-gunfire-near-white-house\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 The Secret Service said it is investigating overnight gunfire near the White House on Sunday. Officers responded shortly after midnight on Sunday to reports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}