Trump’s LA deployment controversy puts the Washington Monument in the spotlight again—built to honor George Washington, first U.S. president.
A suspect identified as a “suspicious individual” appearing to have a firearm has been shot near the Washington Monument after a Secret Service confrontation. The incident follows a motorcade carrying Vice President JD Vance and prompted a brief White House lockdown. The suspect and a juvenile bystander were hospitalized; condition of the latter is not life-threatening.