WASHINGTON — Secret Service agents assigned to defend President Biden’s granddaughter opened fire late Sunday on a group of people attempting to break into an unmarked Secret Service car, officials said.
Agents protecting the 29-year-old lawyer‘s home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington caught three people attempting to break into a parked, unmarked Secret Service vehicle.
“[A]round 11:58 p.m. … Secret Service agents encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
“During this encounter, a federal agent discharged a service weapon and it is believed no one was struck,” Guglielmi said.
“The offenders immediately fled the scene in a red vehicle and a regional lookout was issued to supporting units. There was no threat to any protectees and the incident is being investigated by the DC Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service.”
A neighbor of the first granddaughter told The Post that they took a walk by the site around 11 p.m. — roughly an hour before the encounter — and that the street was “dead” without anyone outside in the chilly weather.
The Secret Service, which has dedicated parking spots, monitors the block from a unit near Naomi’s and “would have noticed it happening because it was so dead,” the neighbor said.
The DC Police Department said in a late Monday press release that agents from its Force Investigation Team were probing the agent-involved shooting, along with an independent review by the DC US Attorney’s Office.
The Secret Service reportedly put out a regional bulletin to the police to be on the lookout for the suspects’ vehicle.
The nation’s capital has seen a drastic rise in carjackings and car thefts this year. In the past year, police have received reports of more than 750 carjackings and over 6,000 stolen vehicles.
The issue has become so pervasive that even lawmakers have been impacted. Last month, US Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was carjacked at gunpoint near the Capitol by three armed assailants.
Meanwhile, the District’s police department has issued a series of drastic recommendations to would-be motorists in the hope of preventing more crimes — including “ALWAYS keep your doors locked and windows rolled up,” “drive in the center lane to make it harder for carjackers to approach,” “avoid driving alone,” and “don’t stop to assist a stranger whose car has broken down.”
Naomi, Hunter Biden’s eldest daughter, got married in the White House last fall after living there with the president in the runup to her big day.
Previously, she lived in a luxury apartment building boasting a rare direct view of the executive mansion and other DC landmarks from its rooftop.
She moved to Georgetown after a honeymoon in the Seychelles.
Naomi recently made headlines following reports that she allegedly vandalized the US Capitol in 2011 as a Senate page — and that as an adult she worked for the government of Peru, despite the corruption allegations against the president for his links to foreign ventures of Naomi’s father and great-uncle James.
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