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Cole Tomas Allen, the suspected gunman at the White House correspondents’ dinner, is facing an [additional related charge](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indictment-charges-cole-tomas-allen-attempt-assassinate-president-and-assault-federal) for assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, federal authorities announced on Tuesday
Cole Tomas Allen from California, is in custody. Trump said he was heavily armed and appeared to be acting alone. The White House correspondents’ dinner will be rescheduled in 30 days. Here’s what
Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance, California, is [due to appear in court later today](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-press-dinner-shooting-motive). He is expected to be formally charged with using a firearm during a violent crime and assault
attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2024 in which a bullet grazed his ear. Just 64 days later, Trump was again the target of a would-be assassin as he played a round
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., to the attack, Pirro told CNN on Sunday. "We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun
Cole Allen, who remains behind bars for now pending his trial, was injured during the attack but was not shot by officers. The attack was an attempt to kill president Trump, according to the federal
attempts](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-shooting) against Trump, and the [killings](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/democratic-lawmakers-minnesota-shot) of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the rightwing activist [Charlie Kirk](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooting). Threats to members
Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. He is believed to have been targeting administration officials
attempt to kill President Donald Trump. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, posted the video on social media amid questions over whose bullet struck a Secret Service officer as Cole Tomas Allen ran through
Cole Tomas Allen allegedly ran through a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer. In a court filing late on Thursday, Allen’s attorneys argued that it created at least
charging through a US Secret Service security checkpoint outside the black tie dinner with a 12-gauge shotgun. Prosecutors allege Allen also intended to kill members of Trump’s cabinet. A Secret Service agent stopped
attempted to storm the White House Correspondents' Dinner, acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has said. The suspect, named by US media as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, was arrested after police said
charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of the Secret Service,” Trump told a news conference at the White House shortly after the incident