The Department of Justice on May 29 filed an indictment against a Texas man who allegedly shot at Secret Service agents earlier this month.
Midland, Texas, resident Michael Marx, 45, is charged with one count of using a deadly weapon to assault a law enforcement officer and one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
The first charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years; the second has a mandatory minimum of 10 years.
“The evidence shows Marx not only carried an illegal firearm into D.C., but he fired it at uniformed officers, wounding an innocent teenage bystander who was simply visiting the National Mall with his family on a spring afternoon,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement….