reporters reported that shots were heard near the White House in Washington.
"When we were in the White House, we heard a lot of shooting. We were told to run to the press briefing room," the ABC News journalist wrote on social networks.
The correspondent of "RIA Novosti" explained that police and National Guard units were sent to the scene.
"Multiple law enforcement units have completely blocked traffic on 17th Street downtown, where, according to media reports, the shooting took place. Police cars were deployed at intersections, and pedestrian traffic in the direction of the shooting was closed," he said.
According to the reporter of DC News, Trump was in the White House at the time of the incident.
US President Donald Trump later confirmed that the suspect in Sunday's shooting near the White House was killed by Secret Service agents.
"The shooter died after a shootout with Secret Service agents at the gates of the White House," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social social network page.
The US leader also thanked the Secret Service for their work.
The US Secret Service said in response to an inquiry by RIA Novosti on Sunday that the incident took place near the White House around 1:00 a.m. Moscow time, when a man pulled a gun from his bag and opened fire at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street. Law enforcement officers returned fire, fatally wounding the shooter. One bystander was also injured.
