US EditionTimeline Shows Gunman's Attempt to Enter Press Dinner Featuring Trump
Federal prosecutors say Cole Tomas Allen faces two charges after a manifesto railing against the Trump administration preceded the shooting, officials said.
- On Saturday, April 25, 2026, 31-year-old Torrance engineer Cole Thomas Allen charged a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton armed with a shotgun, handgun, and multiple knives, allegedly opening fire before Secret Service agents tackled him.
- Calling himself the "Friendly Federal Assassin," Allen emailed family a manifesto minutes before the disruption, stating he intended to target administration officials prioritized by rank and criticizing Trump administration policies.
- Records show Allen was a 2017 CalTech graduate in mechanical engineering who interned at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for approximately three months in 2014 and worked part-time as a tutor at C2 Education.
- Allen is due in court on Monday facing two initial charges: using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon, prosecutors said.
- Analysts draw parallels to Luigi Mangione, citing theories of "elite overproduction" where credentialed aspirants exceed available positions, potentially fueling future threats against institutions.
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The Washington Hilton has all the luck, one must admit. In 1981 John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan as the then-President entered his limousine outside. At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, Cole Allen charged a Secret Service checkpoint inside the same hotel with a shotgun, handgun and several knives, minutes after emailing his family a manifesto in which he named himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin”. A Secret Service age…
ABC LA interview from 2017 appears to feature SoCal man arrested in Correspondents' Dinner shooting
An ABC LA interview from 2017 appears to feature Cole Allen, the Torrance, California man accused in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting. The interview was from an aging conference when he was a student at CalTech and had designed a new way to make wheelchairs safer.
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