Armed suspect who allegedly shot at Secret Service officers near White House identified as Texas man

Fox News has learned the sanction of the fishy changeable by U.S. Secret Service officers adjacent the White House this week. 

Michael Marx, a 45-year-old Texan, has been identified arsenic the idiosyncratic seen allegedly carrying a firearm conscionable blocks from the White House connected Monday, sources told Fox News connected Tuesday.

Secret Service Uniformed Division officers engaged the fishy aft helium was observed pulling a gun, a national root antecedently told Fox News Digital. 

In a quality conference, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told reporters that the fishy allegedly changeable successful the absorption of officers aft they tried to face him adjacent 15th Street and Independence Avenue, causing the agents to instrumentality fire.

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A transgression country technician removes a weapon pursuing an speech of gunfire betwixt the Secret Service and a gunman connected the National Mall successful Washington, D.C., connected May 4, 2026. Police said the gunman changeable astatine a Secret Service cause and wounded a bystander earlier constabulary changeable the gunman. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

 A juvenile fishy was besides struck by the fishy and sustained non-life-threatening injuries, Quinn said. 

Quinn said the confrontation began aft trained surveillance unit spotted a "visual print" of a weapon.

"My knowing is they observed a print," Quinn said. "These are trained surveillance detection unit retired determination looking each time to look for conscionable that... and they observed a ocular people of a firearm."

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"Upon making contact, that idiosyncratic fled concisely connected foot, withdrew a firearm and fired successful the absorption of our agents and officers," Quinn said. "They returned occurrence and engaged."

A National Guard worker and U.S. Secret Service serviceman unafraid the transgression country pursuing an speech of gunfire by the U.S. Secret Service and a gunman connected the National Mall connected May 4, 2026, successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade had passed done the country not agelong earlier the shooting, but the incidental appears to beryllium unrelated, according to Quinn.  

Quinn besides dismissed questions regarding whether the fishy was targeting President Donald Trump successful airy of the caller onslaught astatine the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

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 "I can’t accidental — I’m not going to conjecture connected that," Quinn said. "I tin archer you that each time, we’re patrolling this area. In each site, we bash 24/7, hardcore, whether oregon not it was directed to the president oregon not, I don’t know. But we volition find out."

Marx was subsequently transported to a section hospital, though his information has not yet been released by authorities.

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Additionally, prosecutors person not yet revealed what charges Marx whitethorn look stemming from the alleged incident. 

Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.