Secret Service Shoots Armed Man Attempting to Enter Trump's Florida Residence

US Secret Service agents shot and killed an armed man who breached the security perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

According to AFP and Al Jazeera reports on Sunday (22/2/2026), Trump was in Washington at the time of the incident. Officials said the event occurred at approximately 1:30 am local time.

Secret Service agents opened fire on the man after spotting him entering the security perimeter at Mar-a-Lago.

“Illegally entering the security perimeter at Mar-a-Lago this morning,” agency spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a post on X.

The Secret Service identified the suspect as a man in his early twenties. He was seen carrying a rifle and a fuel canister.

He was “spotted at the north gate of the Mar-a-Lago property carrying what appeared to be a rifle and a fuel canister,” the agency said in a statement.

Agents confronted the man and opened fire. No US officers were injured, and the agency stated that no “Secret Service protectees” were at Mar-a-Lago at the time. The man was pronounced dead.

“The only words we said to him were ‘drop those items’, meaning the fuel canister and the rifle,” Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters.

“At that point he put the fuel canister down and raised the rifle to a firing position,” Bradshaw said. A deputy and two Secret Service agents then shot him.