Secret Service Agents Fatally Shoot Man Trying to Unlawfully Enter Mar-a-Lago

President Donald Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago during the incident.
Secret Service Agents Fatally Shoot Man Trying to Unlawfully Enter Mar-a-Lago
Cars drive by President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, after U.S. Secret Service and local police shot and killed a man armed with a shotgun after he breached a secure perimeter of the resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Feb. 22, 2026. Marco Bello/Reuters
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A man in his 20s was shot and killed by Secret Service agents on Feb. 22 as he allegedly tried to unlawfully enter a secure perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

A deputy and two Secret Service agents responded to the resort’s north front gate around 1:30 ET a.m on Sunday after a security detail detected that the person entered the inner perimeter, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric L. Bradshaw.

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