North Carolina man shot, killed by Secret Service and local deputy outside of Mar-a-Lago

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A North Carolina antheral authorities alleged was carrying a shotgun and a state canister was fatally changeable by U.S. Secret Service agents and a lawman sheriff aboriginal Sunday extracurricular of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, according to the Secret Service.

The shooting unfolded astir 1:30 a.m. section clip adjacent the northbound main gross of the estate, Rafael Barros, peculiar cause successful complaint of the U.S. Secret Service's Miami tract office, said astatine a news conference aboriginal Sunday.

"We privation to beryllium clear: the president of the United States was not successful the authorities of Florida," Barros said.

No "Secret Service protectees" were astatine the spot astatine the clip of the shooting, according to a statement from a Secret Service spokesperson earlier Sunday.

The antheral killed was identified aboriginal Sunday greeting arsenic 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin from Moore County, North Carolina.

The Moore County Sheriff's Office reported that a comparative of Martin reported him missing astatine astir 1:38 a.m. Sunday. He was past entered into a nationalist missing idiosyncratic database, with nary anterior past with the sheriff's office.

Following the report, national authorities contacted the sheriff's office, stating they were conducting an progressive probe successful Florida involving Martin. The sheriff's bureau was requested to crook the missing idiosyncratic lawsuit implicit to national investigators.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said astatine Sunday's quality league extracurricular of Mar-a-Lago that Martin was changeable aft helium allegedly pointed the shotgun astatine the instrumentality enforcement officers.

Bradshaw said Martin had made his mode into the interior perimeter of Mar-a-Lago and that helium was confronted by 2 Secret Service Agents and a lawman sheriff.

"They confronted (Martin) that was carrying a state tin and a shotgun," Bradshaw said.

He aboriginal held up a printed transcript of photograph helium said showed the limb and canister.

"He was ordered to driblet those 2 pieces of instrumentality that helium had with him, astatine which clip helium enactment down the state can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position," Bradshaw said of the alleged intruder.

"At that constituent successful time, the lawman and the 2 Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat," Bradshaw said, adding that Martin was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

"Fortunately, cipher was injured wrong due to the fact that of the speedy enactment that was taken by the lawman and the Secret Service," Bradshaw said.

Investigators are determining however galore shots were fired successful the incidental and whether the alleged intruder fired astatine changeable astatine the instrumentality enforcement officers, who were portion of the information item astatine Mar-a-Lago, Bradshaw said. He added that it wasn't yet known whether the shotgun was loaded.

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The FBI is spearheading investigation, said Brett Skiles, the peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI's Miami tract office, adding that FBI unit was connected the country collecting evidence.

A motive for the incidental is chartless astatine this time, officials said.

Skiles asked residents surviving adjacent Mar-a-Lago to cheque their exterior information cameras for footage from Saturday nighttime into aboriginal Sunday greeting for "anything that looks suspicious oregon retired of place," and to interaction the FBI oregon the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office if they do.

ABC News contributed to this report.