U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said there is no evidence that a Secret Service shot during the incident was the victim of friendly fire.

Authorities say Cole Allen, accused in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, had a background in engineering, teaching, and game development, with LinkedIn details shedding light on his life before the incident.

Was Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of shooting at attendees at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner, on the payroll of the Democratic National Committee and several California Democratic

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Images of the would-be Trump assassin have circulated purporting to show Allen with well-known celebrities.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter assembled his arsenal from two California stores in the months and years before the attack. Cole Allen purchased a Maverick 12-gauge pump-action shotgun from Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance last August and a Armscor semi-automatic pistol from CAP Tactical Firearms in Lawndale in October 2023.

While federal officials have described the assassination attempt suspect at White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. as someone who plotted a brazen attack against the president of the United States,

Prosecutors release selfie and weapon photos tied to Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged Trump attack plot.