Update: Police have identified the person killed by two secret service officers outside the Peruvian ambassador’s home as 19-year-old Gordon Casey. The Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) Force Investigations Team is still working with the United States Secret Service to investigate the shooting. Police have not identified the officers who shot Casey.

Casey’s girlfriend, 18-year-old Emma Schultz, told FOX 5 that she last saw him about a day before the incident outside the ambassador’s home. Schultz told the outlet that he was in a mental health crisis at the time. The outlet reported that both Schultz and Casey’s mother said he had never been a violent person.

“I feel like the situation could have been handled differently,” Schultz told FOX 5. “I don’t feel like they had to shoot him over and over.”

Original:

Two members of the U.S. Secret Service uniformed division fatally shot a man on Wednesday morning outside the Peruvian ambassador’s residence in Northwest D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police Chief Robert Contee told reporters at a press conference that shortly before 8 a.m., secret service was called to the 3000 Block of Garrison Street NW in response to an alleged “burglary in progress.” Contee said the person who police killed had allegedly smashed “several windows” at the back of the residence and was holding a metal stake. Contee said tasers were initially used on the individual, which had no effect. They then used their service weapons to shoot him.

“They encountered this person, they pulled their … tasers. This person was holding a metal stake. The officers fired those tasers. They did not take effect. And as these weapons did not take effect ultimately, the officers ended up pulling their service weapons, firing shots, and this person is now deceased,” Contee said.

According to Contee, MPD’s force investigation team is handling the investigation of the shooting, along with the U.S. Secret Service. Unlike MPD, U.S. Secret Service is not required to release body camera footage after police shoots someone.

Contee said authorities did not yet know why the man was outside the residence.

“We don’t know who this individual is,” said Contee. “We don’t know why this person was on the ambassador’s residential property.”

The ambassador and his wife were home at the time, but no one inside the house was hurt, according to Contee. The two officers who killed the man were hospitalized afterwards; Contee said he did not know if they were injured, or the extent of their injuries if there were any.