Newly-released footage showed the moments after United States Secret Service agents tackled and subdued the man who attempted to breach security and open fire on members of President Donald Trump’s administration at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
The video showed agents first attempting to get through a door, and then once the door was opened. a number of other agents could be seen walking around the suspect — who by then was lying facedown on the floor, his arms twisted and tied behind his back.
The suspect on the ground has since been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, whose social media footprint includes anti-Trump and anti Christian commentary and who has been linked to Bluesky posts calling for President Trump’s immediate removal from office.
He was apprehended on Saturday night after he attempted to charge through a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, where the event was being held, armed with a shotgun and a handgun in addition to several knives.
Allen was taken into custody, and although it is believed that he intended to shoot as many Trump administration officials as he could, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in Sunday morning that thus far, the suspect has not been cooperating with law enforcement.
“From what we’ve learned in our preliminary investigation, he’s not actively cooperating,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tells @margbrennan about the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter. pic.twitter.com/uxx8EM1AxF
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Blanche also confirmed that at least one Secret Service agent had been shot ad they apprehended Allen, but that he had been protected by the vest he was wearing at the time.
Allen is believed to have been staying at the Washington Hilton in the days leading up to the event, Blanche added. “We’re still understanding the security protocols that led to him being able to have firearms in that hotel.”
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