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CHARGED. ROBERT W. PICKETT, 47, former IRS employee who fired a .38-cal. handgun outside the White House; with assaulting a federal officer; in Washington. Pickett, who faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, was hospitalized after being shot in the knee by a Secret Service agent...
TIME White House correspondent John Dickerson, who'd just left a South Lawn press conference about President Bush's tax-cut plan, was on his way to the office when the news broke: A man, waving a handgun in the direction of the White House and threatening to kill himself, had been shot by Secret Service agents. The alleged gunman, later identified as Robert Pickett of Evansville, Ind., was in surgery early Wednesday afternoon at George Washington University Hospital. At an afternoon press conference, held after the arrest, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer emphasized that the President had never been...
...South Lawn this morning for the presentation, and this guy was captured on the southernmost point of the lawn, where people line up to look at the White House - you can get the best view of the building from there. It makes you wonder, though: Could someone with a handgun get a clear shot from that angle...
...Robert had turned around only a heartbeat before the shooting began. It looked as if his father had lurched forward, but he was not sure. He ran to his parents' bedroom, tearing open drawers. "Where's Daddy's gun? Where's Daddy's gun?" he yelled. The 9-mm handgun was missing. Robert opened the closet where Phyllis and Derwin kept shotguns and rifles inherited from her father and his grandfather, who had been hunters. Robert found the rifles but no ammunition. "Why are you even looking for guns?" his mother asked him, still thinking the shooting was next door...
HUPD issues each of its beat officers a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol with a fifteen round magazine--a powerful handgun that is the only firearm the department allows officers to carry...