Suspended Secret Service Officer Shot And Killed In D.C. Tuesday

Uniformed Secret Service officers walk along the fence on the North side of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Secret Service is coming under intense scrutiny after a man who hopped the Wh... Uniformed Secret Service officers walk along the fence on the North side of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Secret Service is coming under intense scrutiny after a man who hopped the White House fence made it all the way through the front door before being apprehended. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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A Secret Service officer who was on leave following an April burglary arrest was shot and killed in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday afternoon.

Police told Fox 5 DC that the agent officer was shot around 2:45 on Tuesday afternoon in Southwest D.C. A spokeswoman for the Secret Service confirmed to the Washington Post that Arthur Baldwin, a member of the Service’s uniformed division, was killed on Tuesday.

“We are aware he was killed,” the spokeswoman said. “We express our condolences to his family.”

Police told the Washington Post that they are looking for three men in connection with the shooting.

Baldwin was suspended in April after he was charged with first-degree burglary and destruction of property after allegedly trying to kick in the door of an ex-girlfriend’s apartment, according to the Post. Police found broken hinges on the apartment’s front door and shattered windows.

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  1. Baldwin was suspended in April after he was charged with first-degree
    burglary and destruction of property after allegedly trying to kick in
    the door of an ex-girlfriend’s apartment, according to the Post. Police
    found broken hinges on the apartment’s front door and shattered windows.

    Anger management issues?
    The SS needs top to bottom reformation. I do not want unstable people in that outfit.

  2. Where is Clint Eastwood when you need him?

  3. Last time I saw him he was talking to a chair.

  4. Seems like he turned his life around after that suspension…

  5. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    This is the stuff of rightwing paranoid fantasies…Wonder what’s on the drawing board?

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