Shot fired outside US Naval Observatory leads to Secret Service investigation

WASHINGTON — The sound of a gunshot heard outside of the United States Naval Observatory, where the vice president lives, early Monday, has left the Secret Service investigating.

Officers with the Secret Service Uniformed Division responded to the Naval Observatory, located at 34th and Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, around 1:30 a.m. after a report of a single gunshot in the area. Officials say no one was hurt in the incident, nor is there any indication that the shooting was directed towards any protectees or the building itself.

The investigation led to roads around the intersection temporarily closing and caused rush hour traffic to be backed up on Massachusetts Avenue Northwest.

The vice president was not home, nor in Washington, D.C., when the shot was fired. According to her public schedule for Monday, she is in Los Angeles filming an episode of the Jennifer Hudson show and speaking at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. 

Over the weekend, Harris spoke at a march for reproductive rights at the LA City Hall. At the rally, Vice President Harris urged Americans to take action during "a critical point in our nation's history" as thousands of protesters gathered and demonstrated across the country against new limits to abortion rights making their way through the courts.