Knifeman arrested outside White House 'wanted to assassinate Donald Trump'
Roger Hedgpeth, 25, was arrested outside the White House after telling a Secret Service officer 'I am here to assassinate President Donald Trump', according to a report
A knifeman arrested outside the White House wanted to assassinate US President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Roger Hedgpeth, 25, is said to have told a Secret Service officer 'I am here to assassinate President Donald Trump... I have a knife to do it with'.
The suspect, from Florida, has apparently been described as a 'critically missing/endangered person' and a 'mental health consumer' in a police report.
He was arrested around a block away from the White House on Saturday for threatening to kill the President and carrying a prohibited weapon.
He had a 3.5-inch knife in a sheath attached to his left hip and an empty pistol holster on his right hip.
Hedgpeth was detained at the north-west corner of 15th St and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, the Washington Post reports.
It comes after a British man who grabbed a police officer’s gun in a failed attempt to assassinate Trump was jailed for a year after pleading guilty in a deal with US prosecutors.
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