“We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” Pirro said. “It is definitively his bullet.”
Pirro’s comments on CNN’s State of the Union come as reports speculated the Secret Service agent was hit by friendly fire. Multiple outlets reported that court documents in the case do not unequivocally say the suspect, Cole Allen, was the one who hit the agent, fueling the public’s speculation. But U.S. officials have all maintained it was Allen who fired the shot.
Secret Service Director Sean Curran said on Thursday that the agent who was hit fired five rounds from his gun and that each missed Allen while he was falling to the ground. Pirro also told CNN that “there’s video of the defendant shooting at the Secret Service agent” and that the Secret Service
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