US Secret Service Says armed man shot, killed at Mar-a-Lago

Myles Miller and María Paula Mijares Torres

Updated Mon, February 23, 2026 at 12:12 AM GMT+9 1 min read

(Bloomberg) — The US Secret Service said an armed man was shot and killed after entering a secured area at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida even as the president spent the weekend in Washington.

The Secret Service said in a statement posted on X that a man in his early 20s was seen entering the property “carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”

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Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference Sunday that the man was confronted by Secret Service agents and a sheriff’s deputy and was ordered to drop both items.

“He put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” Bradshaw said. “At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat.”

The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, is believed to have driven to Mar-a-Lago from North Carolina and was reported missing there on Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Nobody under Secret Service protection was present at the time of the 1:30 am Sunday shooting, according to the agency.

No law enforcement officials were injured. Bradshaw declined to say whether the shots were fired by a sheriff’s deputy or the Secret Service.

—With assistance from Catherine Lucey and Wendy Benjaminson.

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