Secret Service locks down White House press due to gunfire: report

The Secret Service reportedly locked down the White House press office on Monday after gunshots were fired nearby.

As President Donald Trump was preparing to speak at a small-business summit, NewsNation correspondent Libby Dean said the Secret Service had moved to lock down the compound.

"Secret Service directed press off the White House North Lawn into the briefing room minutes before @POTUS arrived at event in East Room," Dean revealed on social media.

A member of the U.S. Secret Service shot someone near the Washington Monument at the corner of 15th and Independence Streets SW, law enforcement sources told Washington Post reporter Emily Davies. There was no apparent injury to law enforcement, Davies said.

"Reports of shots fired a few blocks away," Al Jazeera English correspondent Alan Fisher wrote, confirming that the White House was on lockdown.

"Gunshots fired near the @WhiteHouse complex, at 15th and Independence. @SecretService locking down press office and other locations," Newsmax correspondent James Rosen reported.