Police block the street near the house of the Peruvian ambassador, in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2022. - A man who broke into the compound of Perus ambassador in Washington and smashed windows with an iron bar was shot dead Wednesday by Secret Service officers, police said. Washington Police Chief Robert Contee said Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero and his wife were in the residence in a quiet upscale neighborhood when the unidentified man began breaking the windows shortly before 8 am.

D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee told reporters on Wednesday that uniformed officers with the U.S. Secret Service were called to the residence around 8 a.m. in response to a call of a burglary in progress. “Multiple windows were smashed out of the house,” Contee said, noting that the sound of the breaking glass alerted the family to the intruder.

When the officers arrived, they found an individual “holding a metal stake” in the rear of the ambassador’s residence.

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A police officer patrols near the house of the Peruvian ambassador, in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2022. - A man who broke into the compound of Perus ambassador in Washington and smashed windows with an iron bar was shot dead Wednesday by Secret Service officers, police said. Washington Police Chief Robert Contee said Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero and his wife were in the residence in a quiet upscale neighborhood when the unidentified man began breaking the windows shortly before 8 am.

After unsuccessfully firing their stun guns at the man, the suspect did not back down, and the officers used their weapons, with Contee noting that the suspect “is now deceased.”

“We don’t know who this individual is,” Contee said. “We don’t know why this person was on the ambassador’s residential property, we don’t know why this person smashed out several windows, we don’t know why this person had a double stake, we don’t know why this person approached the officers with that double stake, but we’re investigating that now.”

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Juba, SUDAN: Members of the UN Security Council delegation, from top, Ghanian Ambassador to the UN Nana Effah Aprenteng, Chinese Ambassador to the UN Wang Gnangya and Peruvian Ambassador to the UN Oswaldo De Rivero, arrive 08 June 2006 in Juba for a fact-finding mission in the area. The Security Council team is currently on a nine-day tour of African hotspots – Ethiopia, southern Sudan, Darfur, Chad and then the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Contee said it does not appear that the suspect was known to the family and it was still unclear if the suspect had entered the home.

source: people.com