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gala, key details about the shooting remain unclear. As the investigation has evolved, prosecutors' statements have changed on whether the suspect shot a US Secret Service officer as gunfire rang out at the Washington Hilton
get past... and then you're in the ballroom," he told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme. Trump himself later said the Hilton was "not a particularly secure building", adding that incident showed
gala event was interrupted by the sudden sound of gunfire, and Secret Service agents rushed the president out. A man armed with a shotgun had fired at a Secret Service agent, an FBI official told
Get down!” and “Stay down!” I saw guests at the [White House Correspondents’ Association’s](https://whca.press/) (WHCA) annual dinner – men in tuxedos, women in dresses – diving under the circular tables and, almost
gala, being held at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening. The president later called the [incident](/news/liveblog/2026/4/26/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-talks-under-siege-trump-cancels-envoys-trip) an attack by a “would-be assassin”. Security personnel shot at the suspect after he forced
gala attended by [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) and senior White House officials. A man targeted a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel the previous night before being tackled