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Joe Biden’s granddaughter's car break-in: Secret service agents did this
Secret service said, “During this encounter, a federal agent discharged a service weapon and it is believed no one was struck.”
Secret Service agents protecting US president Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle, The Associated Press reported. The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her in the Georgetown neighbourhood when they saw three people breaking a window of the parked and unoccupied SUV, the report claimed.
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What the Secret Service said on the incident?
The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly, the report added. One of the agents opened fire, but no one was struck by the gunfire, the Secret Service said in a statement. The three people were then seen fleeing in a red car, it said. The Secret Service said it put out a regional bulletin to Metropolitan Police to be on the lookout for the absconders.
"On Nov. 12 around 11:58 pm..., Secret Service agents encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle," the presidential protection service agency's spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.
"During this encounter, a federal agent discharged a service weapon and it is believed no one was struck," he said.
This comes as US representative Henry Cuellar of Texas was carjacked near the Capitol last month by three armed assailants, who stole his car but didn't physically harm him. In February this year, Angie Craig of Minnesota was assaulted in her apartment building, suffering bruises while escaping serious injury.
More about Naomi Biden
Naomi Biden made history in November 2022 with her White House wedding to Peter Neal as she became the first bride to tie the knot on the South Lawn. Naomi and Peter were also living with Joe Biden and First lady Jill Biden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since August 2021.
The 29-year-old is the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle, and is named after her late aunt, Joe Biden's daughter from his first marriage, who tragically died in a car crash.
