The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner allegedly used the hotel staircase to bypass security, according to a recent report.
“Senior law enforcement sources” told CBS News that “hotel surveillance footage” showed Cole Tomas Allen, 31, exiting his hotel room at the Washington Hilton Hotel with “a shotgun, a handgun and several knives packed inside a black bag.”
Allen allegedly then “used an interior stairwell” to get around “heavily monitored public areas of the hotel,” before arriving on “the same level as the foyer leading to” the red carpet for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to the outlet.
The report comes after President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other Cabinet officials who were attending the event were rushed out of the room after gunshots were heard during the dinner.
In video footage posted to social media, people attending the event
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