{"id":467633,"date":"2026-05-04T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:48:16","slug":"agent-hit-by-buckshot-from-gun-of-man-charged-in-dinner-attack-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467633\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent hit by buckshot from gun of man charged in dinner attack \u2013 prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner in an attempt to kill US President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April 25, but she went beyond that on Sunday in saying a shot from one of Cole Tomas Allen\u2019s weapons hit the officer\u2019s bullet-resistant vest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant\u2019s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fibre of the vest of the Secret Service officer,\u201d she told CNN\u2019s State of the Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is definitively his bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/agent-hit-by-buckshot-from-gun-of-man-charged-in-dinner-attack-prosecutor.jpg\" alt=\"Two images of weapons and shotgun ammunition\" data-title=\"Trump Correspondents\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"\" data-credit=\"Uncredited\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. Handout \u2013 Government Produced\"\/>Some of the weapons and shotgun ammunition held by Cole Tomas Allen (Department of Justice via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who remains behind bars pending his trial, was injured during the attack but was not shot. The officer survived.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Ms Pirro posted a video on social media showing the moment that authorities say a man with guns and knives attempted to storm the media gala.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have lingered about whose bullet struck the officer as the suspect ran through security with a long gun toward the ballroom packed with journalists, administration officials and others.<\/p>\n<p>A phone call to lawyers representing Allen went unanswered on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has been charged with attempted assassination of the president, as well as two additional firearms counts, including discharging a weapon during a crime of violence. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of the assassination count alone.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, 31, is from Torrance, California. He worked as a part-time tutor for a test preparation company and is an amateur video game developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-467633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116515445659450523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}