A crazed gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quickly taken down by a barrage of shots from the Secret Service, sources said.
Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.
At least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.
While a motive for the attack hasn’t been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who was well-known to the Secret Service for repeatedly loitering around various entry posts and who has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House.
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Best, who was taken down by members of the Secret Service Uniformed Division, had previously been involuntarily committed on June 26 for obstructing vehicular traffic at 15th Street and E Street NW, before being arrested again on July 10 for Unlawful Entry.
In that incident, Best bypassed a restricted White House pedestrian control post by walking through an exit turnstile lane — and made crazed statements when D.C. police and Secret Service agents detained him.
“[Best] claimed he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to get arrested,” court records of the incident said.
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Trump thanked law enforcement for its quick response following Saturday’s shooting.
“Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House, who had a violent history and possible obsession with our Country’s most cherished structure,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, Sunday morning. “The gunman is dead after an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service Agents near the White House gates. This event is one month removed from the White House Correspondent’ Dinner shooting, and goes to show how important it is, for all future Presidents, to get, what will be, the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C. The National Security of our Country demands it!”
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Interesting given name…Nasire….
Linguistic Origin
The name originates in Arabic, a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic family, emerging prominently during the early Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula. It spread through conquests, trade routes, and religious dissemination across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, integrating into Persian, Turkish, and Urdu linguistic spheres as Nasir or localized variants. Transmission occurred via Quranic nomenclature and Sufi orders, embedding it in Indo-Iranian and Turkic naming practices. In Swahili and other Bantu languages of East Africa, phonetic adaptations arose through Arab-Swahili coastal interactions, preserving the Arabic root amid Bantu phonology. Ottoman Turkish further disseminated it into Balkan and Central Asian contexts, where orthographic shifts like Nasire reflect Turkic vowel harmony. This pathway highlights Arabic’s role as a liturgical and cultural vector in Muslim-majority regions.
Cultural Background
In Islam, Nasire evokes one of Allah’s attributes, Al-Nasir (The Helper), invoked in supplications for victory and protection, embedding it deeply in devotional practices. Sunni and Shia naming customs favor it for boys to invoke divine aid, often paired with Muhammad in compound forms. Culturally, it signifies communal solidarity in Sufi brotherhoods, where nasire roles supported tariqa orders across the ummah. In East African Islam, it bridges Arab and local customs, symbolizing resilience amid colonial histories.
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