A man is set to be charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, after President Donald Trump and other top officials were evacuated from the event Saturday evening.
Cole Thomas Allen, 31, has widely been identified as the shooter. The suspect had no criminal history prior to being arrested for allegedly running through the event’s security checkpoint, shooting a Secret Service officer, and running toward the main room where Trump and other attendees were gathered for the prestigious annual dinner, according to officials, with Trump alleging an anti-Christian motive.
Allen is a part-time teacher from Torrance, a Los Angeles suburb, who appears to have attended the California Institute of Technology, one of the most elite schools in the country.
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Allen was a mechanical engineering student at Caltech, where he graduated in 2017 before later obtaining a master’s degree in
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