Cole Tomas Allen Indicted on Four Federal Counts for Alleged Attempt to Assassinate President Trump

A federal grand jury has formally indicted the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last month.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, now faces four federal counts filed May 5 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Three of the charges mirror those in the original criminal complaint. The fourth is new: assaulting a U.S. Secret Service officer with a deadly weapon.

Allen allegedly rushed a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on the evening of April 25, ran through a magnetometer carrying a shotgun, and shot a Secret Service officer once in the chest. The officer was wearing a ballistic vest and survived. Allen faces the possibility of life in prison.