United States President Donald Trump has been evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington, DC, after shots were fired outside the event.
Trump was rushed offstage at the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday evening after gunfire broke out outside the ballroom where the annual media gala was taking place.
The president, First Lady Melania Trump, and Trump’s Cabinet were unharmed in the attack.
In a news conference after the incident, Trump said a man armed with multiple weapons had charged a security checkpoint and was “taken down” by the Secret Service.
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US Attorney Jeanine Piro said the suspect will be charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence, and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.
ReplyDeleteThe acting police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, is now speaking to the media and providing more details on the suspect.
ReplyDeleteJeffery Carroll said the suspect “was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives” as he ran through the checkpoint at the Washington Hilton.
The suspect was then intercepted.
US law enforcement officials believe that the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association reception at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington was a guest, Metropolitan Police Department Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll said at a press conference.
ReplyDelete"Preliminary information. We do believe he was a guest here at the hotel," Carroll said, adding that the suspect is undergoing examination at a hospital and did not sustain any gunshot wounds. A police department spokesperson also said that the motive is currently unknown, and that investigators hope to determine who the shooter's target was.
Trump says he doesn't think the incident is related to Iran, but he is not sure; we don't know yet. This itself is an opening of the door to uncertainty regarding the incident. He also says that within the next 48 hours, they will announce who is responsible for this incident.
ReplyDeleteThe suspect in the US shooting has confessed to the assassination attempt on Trump administration officials, CBS News reported, citing sources.
ReplyDeleteThe New York Times and the CBS News broadcaster have identified the suspect as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen.
ReplyDeleteSocial media posts that appear to match the California man arrested Saturday in the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner show he is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer.
DeleteAllen, 31, earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He listed his involvement there in a Christian student fellowship and a campus group that battled with Nerf guns.
DeleteThe gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, attended by US President Donald Trump, has confessed to an assassination attempt on administration officials, CBS News reported, citing sources.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the report, 31-year-old California teacher Cole Allen, following his detention by law enforcement, admitted his intent to shoot members of the Trump administration.
US law enforcement officials believe that the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association reception at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington was a guest, Metropolitan Police Department Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll said at a press conference.
ReplyDelete"Preliminary information. We do believe he was a guest here at the hotel," Carroll said, adding that the suspect is undergoing examination at a hospital and did not sustain any gunshot wounds. A police department spokesperson also said that the motive is currently unknown, and that investigators hope to determine who the shooter's target was.
According to Reuters, the shooter was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives.