{"id":757762,"date":"2026-04-28T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/757762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:32:18","slug":"live-updates-suspect-in-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-charged-with-attempting-to-assassinate-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/757762\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Suspect in White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting charged with attempting to assassinate the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777336337_994_f_webp.webp\" alt=\"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro hold a press conference, after the initial appearance in federal court of suspected gunman Cole Tomas Allen on Monday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl11vx002b3b6r9vk1qocf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the US Secret Service on Monday, saying that \u201claw enforcement did not fail\u201d when a man rushed through security with firearms outside the ballroom where President Donald Trump and top officials were.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl1he5002d3b6rxk7fc88k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Blanche said during a news conference that \u201cSecret Service agents promptly tackled and detained the suspect.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl1mgc002e3b6rns9hcf12@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The affidavit against the man, Cole Tomas Allen, says that he \u201cfell to the ground and suffered minor injuries\u201d when one officer began firing at him.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohlvqdz002y3b6r6lzkzp4t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cBoth can be true,\u201d Blanche said of the conflicting statements.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohlwxyj002z3b6rwjrukfvj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Blanche told reporters to \u201crely on the complaint, because that was sworn to by an agent and not by the words out of the acting attorney general.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl7euv002i3b6r0wvam4pw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Allen was not injured aside from \u201csome kind of scrape on his knee.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777336338_714_f_webp.webp\" alt=\"This photo of the suspect in the incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner incident was posted to President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on Saturday, April 25. Allen's clothes were removed by officers who searched him for weapons and wounds.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"878\" width=\"1170\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl1xbw002f3b6raxoihxwy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis man was a floor above the ballroom with hundreds of federal agents, between him and the president of the United States,\u201d Blanche said, noting the security on Saturday night.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl24qh002g3b6rysqq9klc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Of Allen, Blanche said, \u201che ran through the magnetometer, holding a long gun, as he did so, US Secret Service personnel assigned to the checkpoint heard a loud gunshot.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohl2dmf002h3b6r6bzx5xae@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cOne Secret Service officer was shot in the chest, but was wearing a ballistic vest that worked,\u201d Blanche added. \u201cThis heroic officer who was hit fired five times at Allen, who was not shot but fell to the ground, and was promptly arrested.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmohm15yw000k3b6ru16oakto@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This post has been updated with additional information.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the US Secret Service on Monday, saying that \u201claw enforcement did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":757763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-757762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116479522581205282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}