WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) – A man arrested for jumping a wall at the White House has been fatally shot after authorities say he attacked a deputy sheriff at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse.
Chester County District Attorney Thomas Hogan says in a statement Tuesday that 34-year-old Curtis Smith was arrested at the White House in March.
Hogan says Smith pulled a knife and slashed a deputy sheriff at the Chester County Courthouse around 11 a.m. Tuesday. He says another deputy shot Smith.
The Coatesville, Pennsylvania man was pronounced dead at a hospital. The slashed deputy was hospitalized in stable condition.
No one else was injured.
Smith was charged with unlawful entry at the White House on March 1. He agreed to stay away from the property for six months so the charge could be dismissed.