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A U.S. Secret Service agent opened fire near the Washington, D.C., home of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen after confronting several people who were trying to break into cars on her street early Tuesday morning, the agency said.
There is no evidence that the agent, who was assigned to Yellen’s protective detail, hit any of the suspects before they fled in their own vehicle, the Secret Service said.
Yellen was not under threat during the incident and was not harmed, the agency said.
The shooting occurred nearly 13 months after a Secret Service agent assigned to protect President Joe Biden‘s eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden Neal, fired shots at several people who were breaking into an unoccupied government vehicle outside of her home in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.
The incident Tuesday outside of Yellen’s home, which is in the northwest section of Washington, occurred at about 1:30 a.m. ET, according to the Secret Service.
The agent “observed a sedan …
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