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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
gala has been indicted on a fourth charge of assaulting a US officer or employee with a deadly weapon. The new charge comes in the wake of questions over whether a Secret Service officer
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