Secret Service shoot armed man at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
An armed man has been shot dead after entering the secure perimeter of US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the Secret Service has said. We speak to a local reporter who has been at Mar-a-Lago several times. Also on the programme: there has been a second day of protests at Iranian universities with crowds chanting, "Death to the dictator"; and the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 come to an end following 16 days of sporting delight. (Photo: President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort after Secret Service and local police shot and killed a man armed with a shotgun after he breached a secure perimeter of the resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and welcome to Newsare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Tim Franks. We're going to bring you some voices of defiance today, the sound of those who refuse to be |
| 0:22.2 | cowed in the face of violence, from another country's military, from their own country's security |
| 0:28.0 | forces, and from a network of abusive men. And we'll also head to Northern Italy for the |
| 0:33.9 | close of the Winter Games in an interview with the Winter Olympics greatest ever athlete. |
| 0:39.0 | First, though, we're heading to Florida and the shooting dead of a man who had attempted to |
| 0:43.3 | breach the secure perimeter at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. President Trump wasn't |
| 0:48.9 | there. He was in Washington at the time. Rick Bradshaw is the sheriff of Palm Beach County and gave this update. |
| 0:56.3 | They confronted a white male that was carried a gas can and a shotgun. |
| 1:02.0 | He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with them, |
| 1:08.8 | at which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting |
| 1:14.9 | position. At that point in time, the deputy and the two secret service agents fired their |
| 1:20.0 | weapons and neutralized the threat. He is deceased at the scene. |
| 1:24.9 | Richard Luscombe is a reporter for the Guardian US based in Miami, Florida. |
| 1:29.6 | Richard, thanks for your time here on NewsAair. Have any further details emerged? |
| 1:35.2 | We now have a name for the suspect. From US media in North Carolina, I've identified |
| 1:42.6 | him as 21-year-old Austin Martin. It's still early |
| 1:46.2 | in the investigation, and detectives now will be working to compile a profile of who Mr. Martin |
| 1:51.8 | was and what compelled him to drive from North Carolina to Florida. We don't know if the suspect |
| 1:58.4 | was aware that President Trump was in residence or not in residence. |
| 2:02.9 | As you've noted, he was in Washington, D.C. at the time. |
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