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WH Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Suspect Cole Allen: 5 Things We Know

| April 26, 2026 |Updated 2h ago |~1 min read |national |Source: www.theepochtimes.com
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The suspect who was arrested following a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that President Donald Trump and other administration officials were attending was identified by a senior administration official as a California man who also wrote an manifesto. A White House official confirmed to the The Epoch Times Sunday that the suspect had been identified as Cole Allen, of Torrance, California. The official also said Allen had allegedly written a manifesto that indicated he was targeting Trump administration officials. Allen was taken into custody on Saturday evening after the shooting at the dinner, which prompted an evacuation of the event. A Secret Service agent was shot in the chest but was wearing a bulletproof vest, Trump said at a quickly organized press conference on Saturday night following the incident....

Originally published at www.theepochtimes.com
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