White House shooting suspect had prior run-ins with Secret Service

One bystander was wounded during the shooting and underwent surgery, remaining in serious but stable condition; the suspect was killed by responding Secret Service officers.

Near the gates of American political power, a young man carrying unresolved mental anguish and a loaded revolver returned to a place he had been warned away from, and the encounter ended as such collisions so often do — in violence, death, and an innocent bystander left to bear wounds not of their making. Nasire Best, 21, of Dundalk, Maryland, had twice before sought entry to the White House under the belief that he was Jesus Christ; the courts had intervened, but the deeper crisis had not been resolved. On Saturday, he arrived again — this time armed — and the machinery of security responded

White House shooting suspect had prior run-ins with Secret Service

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