A California man has been identified as the suspect in the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night.
The Associated Press identified 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen as the suspect. Ahead of a press conference at the White House after shots were fired at the Washington Hilton ballroom on Saturday night, President Donald Trump shared a photo of the suspect, along with a video of him charging through a security checkpoint.
Trump said that the suspect was “armed with multiple weapons,” and he also confirmed that an officer was shot during the incident, but that he was “saved by the fact that he was wearing a obviously very good bulletproof vest.”
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