This story was last updated at 4:21 p.m. on Aug. 11.

The Secret Service has confirmed that an officer shot a 51-year-old male outside the White House Monday evening.

In a prepared statement last night, Thomas Sullivan, chief of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, said that at approximately 5:53 p.m., the man approached a Secret Service officer at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW and told the officer he had a weapon.

Sullivan said the man then turned around and “ran aggressively towards the officer” while withdrawing an “object” from his clothing. He crouched into a “shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon.” The officer then shot at the man, striking him in the torso.

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First aid was rendered and the man, along with the Secret Service officer, were transported to a local hospital. “The White House complex was never breached,” Sullivan said.

Police said the man was arrested on a charge of assaulting a law enforcement officer, according to the Associated Press. He remained hospitalized with critical injuries on Tuesday.

D.C. Fire and Emergency Management Services said it transported an adult male with a gunshot wound to an area hospital, spokesman Vito Maggiolo told DCist/WAMU. The man was a “priority one” transport.

Doug Buchanan, another FEMS spokesman, told NPR the Secret Service “called to tell us that we needed to respond to a patient with a gunshot injury” at around 5:55 p.m on Monday.

The adult male was treated and cared for on the scene, then transported to a nearby hospital with critical, life-threatening injuries, Buchanan said.

The man was not further identified by FEMS or Secret Service, and it was not immediately clear if the suspect did, in fact, have a weapon. Sullivan did not take questions from reporters after his statement.

An internal review of the officer’s actions will be conducted by the Secret Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility. The Metropolitan Police Department will also be involved in the investigation.

This incident took place while President Trump was in the midst of a briefing with reporters. He was briefly escorted out of the briefing room and taken to the Oval Office, he said after returning about nine minutes later.

“I feel very safe with the Secret Service. They’re fantastic people. They’re the best of the best. They’re highly trained,” Trump told reporters. “They just wanted me to step aside for a little while just to make sure that everything was clear outside.”