Two National Guard members from West Virginia were in critical condition on Wednesday after an unidentified man raised his arm and opened fire on them in an apparent “targeted shooting” near the White House, officials said.

The Guard members were a woman and man, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the situation, and were being treated at local hospitals. The unidentified suspect rounded a corner, raised his arm with the weapon and opened fire around 2:15 p.m., MPD Executive Assistant Chief Jeff Carroll said.

“It appears … to be a lone gunman that raised a firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard,” he said.

The suspect was in custody after he was subdued by other Guard members nearby, according to Carroll. The unidentified male suspect was in critical condition.

“They heard the gunfire and they actually were able to intervene and to hold down the suspect after he had been shot on the ground,” Carroll said of the responding Guard members.

Source: ABC News