Donald Trump had been due to give a keynote speech at the highly anticipated White House correspondents' dinner - instead, he was swiftly evacuated after shots were fired.
The president later called it "quite the evening" in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising the Secret Service and police officers for a "fantastic job".
Here's how the shooting unfolded - in pictures.
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