The U.S. Secret Service says an agent guarding former first lady Jill Biden had a “negligent discharge” and shot himself at an airport.
Police said the bizarre incident unfolded at the Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning just before 8:45 a.m.
Biden was not in the vicinity of the negligent discharge.
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A witness told KYW-TV it appeared that the agent was trying to get into the back of an SUV at the airport when the gun accidentally went off.
Police said the agent shot himself in the leg near an unmarked Chevrolet SUV at the Pennsylvania Tower outside Terminal C. The agent was transported to the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in stable condition, according to police. No one else was injured, and the airport operations were not interrupted.
Biden was
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