Security guard shoots intruder at Fox station in Washington, D.C.

A security guard shot an intruder inside a Fox TV affiliate in Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon, the station and police said.

The incident happened a little after 3 p.m. at WTTG-TV’s building in the Friendship Heights neighborhood.

The 38-year-old man got past at least one set of glass doors that usually require an ID to swipe through, the station said.

The security guard first used pepper spray, but then she fired her weapon when the spray didn’t slow the man down, police said. The intruder was shot once in the chest.

“He forced his way in by kicking in the door, and the shooting happened in the lobby area of the station,” Washington police Cmdr. Melvin Gresham said, adding that the man wasn’t armed.

As the man was wheeled into an ambulance, he appeared conscious and was moving his arms, video showed. He was listed as stable at George Washington University Hospital.

Gresham called the suspect “stable, alert and conscious” and said investigators were trying to reach his family.

WTTG reporter Lindsay Watts said she had just pulled into work when colleagues in the parking lot told her that there had been a shooting.

“It’s very surreal covering something like this outside our workplace,” Watts said.