US Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump from the stage as shots rang out at a media gala, in what the president later described as an attack by a "would-be assassin".
Armed guards opened fire at the gunman who charged through a security screening just outside the ballroom of the hotel, where Mr Trump, US First Lady Melania Trump, many senior government officials and hundreds of other guests had gathered.
Many of the 2,600 attendees took cover while waiters fled to the front of the dining hall when the loud bangs happened at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which is held annually at the Washington Hilton in the US capital.
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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.
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