WASHINGTON D.C. — The man shot outside the White House Monday, prompting an abrupt stop to President Donald Trump’s press conference, has previously lived in Dayton.
According to a Washington D.C. police report, the man was identified as Myron Berryman, 51. Online court records show Berryman lived in the Dayton area as recently as 2006, when he owned a home on Vanguard Avenue in Jefferson Twp. He more recently lived in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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News Center 7′s Sean Cudahy spoke to a relative of Berryman and she declined to comment on the shooting.
Chief of the Uniformed Division of the U.S. Secret Service Thomas Sullivan said the man approached an officer near Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street and said he had a weapon.
Sullivan said the man turned around and ran toward the officer and withdrew an object from his clothing and crouched into a shooter’s stance. The officer fired their service weapon and his him twice in the torso.
President Trump was whisked away from the podium in the press room by the Secret Service after the shooting, but returned a short time later to resume his press conference. Sullivan said the man never was on White House property.
The man who was shot was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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