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Cole Allen is now charged with an attempt to assassinate the president after authorities say he tried to storm the correspondents’ dinner and shoot as many Trump administration officials as possible. According to court documents, Allen reserved his room earlier in the month at the Washington Hilton, where the event was being held. Now officials say he then traveled across the country by train from California last week and arrived in DC the day before the dinner. Now moments before the attack, the affidavit. Allen sent an email to his family and *** former employer explaining what he was about to do. Then minutes later, officials say the 31-year-old sprinted past security armed with two guns and knives. *** Secret Service agent was shot in his bulletproof vest and is OK. Now Allen was never shot but fell to the ground and was later arrested before reaching the ballroom where more than 2000 people were sitting, including the president and much of his cabinet. Make no mistake. This was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States, with the defendant making clear what his intent was, and that intent was to bring down as many of the high ranking cabinet officials as he could. Allen is facing two additional firearm related charges. He is scheduled to be back in court on Thursday for *** detention hearing at the White House. I’m Rachel Hirsheimer.
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The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and is accused of trying to kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife, investigators said Wednesday in a new court filing.Cole Allen wore black pants, a black shirt and a red tie as he snapped the image in his room at the Washington Hilton, the venue where Trump and hundreds of journalists were meeting for a gala Saturday night.Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was captured when he tried to race past a security barricade near the ballroom, prompting an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents tasked with safeguarding the event. Allen’s defender says he’s presumed innocent.Trump was not hurt.The dinner had barely begun when officials say Allen tried to race past security barricades near the cavernous ballroom holding hundreds of journalists and their guests, prompting an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents tasked with safeguarding the event. Allen carried with him a 12-gauge pump action shotgun he bought last year and a .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol he purchased in 2023, authorities said.
The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and is accused of trying to kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife, investigators said Wednesday in a new court filing.
Cole Allen wore black pants, a black shirt and a red tie as he snapped the image in his room at the Washington Hilton, the venue where Trump and hundreds of journalists were meeting for a gala Saturday night.
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Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was captured when he tried to race past a security barricade near the ballroom, prompting an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents tasked with safeguarding the event. Allen’s defender says he’s presumed innocent.
Trump was not hurt.
The dinner had barely begun when officials say Allen tried to race past security barricades near the cavernous ballroom holding hundreds of journalists and their guests, prompting an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents tasked with safeguarding the event. Allen carried with him a 12-gauge pump action shotgun he bought last year and a .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol he purchased in 2023, authorities said.
