Police have shot and killed a man in his early 20s who was trying to break into Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, armed with a shotgun and a fuel canister, authorities say.
The man breached the secure perimeter on the north side of the property about 1.30am on Sunday (Florida time) when he was confronted by two Secret Service agents and a local police officer.
Trump was not in the area at the time – he was at the White House in Washington, where he hosted a ball for state governors.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the Secret Service agents and sheriff’s deputy ordered the man to “drop the items”. He then put down the fuel can and “raised the shotgun to a shooting position”, Bradshaw said.
“At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralised the threat. He is deceased at the scene.”
The man killed was identified by investigators as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking anonymously to AP.
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