Posted on 04/25/2026 10:47:54 PM PDT by Morgana
The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting has been identified as a California teacher.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California is the alleged shooter who opened fire at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.
The educator from the Los Angeles area faces firearms and assault charges after he allegedly breached a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement.
Police revealed the suspect had a number of weapons on him including a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives.
President Trump shared a stunning image shortly after the shooting, showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the carpet.
Law enforcement confirmed he was not struck by gunfire while being stopped but has since been taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Itis understood Allen may have been a guest at the Hilton hotel where the event was taking place.
Surveillance video shows the suspect sprinting past a security checkpoint and attempting to reach the doors to the ballroom where the president was gathered along with his most senior cabinet members and thousands of journalists.
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And I’ll just throw these in because they are...weird.
@amuse
@amuse
ASSASSINATION: Only post ever made by this guy three years ago was the name of the would-be assassin.
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And then there’s Markle...
Note the bit about how the pressure lifts on April 25.
Maybe the USSS needs to have a word with the Harkles...
Why wasn’t he killed?
“The assailant ran very fast through the metal detector.”
From the video clip I watched, the Secret Service agent was NOT looking at the entrance. He attention was to the side, probably looking at some skirt. If he had been looking toward the entrance he would have seen Cole a second or two before he ran right past him. This is a YUGE fail. Anyone else notice this?
Antifa killer.
Not nuts
Evil killer
Where Reagan was shot too!
When it was announced that President Trump would attend I feared the unhinged left would produce another assassin. So glad the secret service was able to neutralize the threat.
There are a number of people who are just incompetent in life.
Or he was involved in his radical life.
What did Obama really do after college?
No jury in DC would convict a democrat.
First, keeping a shooter alive for questioning is preferable if at all possible.
Secondly, it appeared to be a “circular firing squad” situation, where he’s running through the middle of them - it’s very difficult to assess what is in the bullet’s path behind a moving target.
Tackling him makes perfect sense to me.. but what do I know.
The shooter has a lot in common with James Carville.
This x post shows the guy’s antfa patches. We don’t need these people alive. We need kills.
They’ve already identified him as “a white male”; Laz pointed that out on another thread. See the photo.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4376478/posts
Pooping sounds from all the non-vet Nancy boy democrat press in the crowd.
"Engineers of Jihad" focuses on the prevalence of engineers in radical Islam, but the same principle applies to Kaczynski and Allen.
Gambetta and Hertog concluded that two factors converge to make engineering overrepresented in radicalization:
Cognitive style.
Engineering and STEM training cultivates a particular way of thinking that prefers precision and definitive solutions, and is uncomfortable with ambiguity and moral complexity. Chaos is very upsetting. In the case of Allen, the constant media drumbeat about Trump's chaos destroying our "Democracy" might have pushed him over the edge.
Status frustration.
Allen was Caltech-educated but apparently had to settle for a low-pay, part-time career as a college prep test tutor. That must have been very disappointing.
And if the above parallels aren't enough, Allen's possible HIV suggests there may be a Breaking Bad angle to this this story.;-)
Millions of potential lone wolves among the democrat filth.
Just another thug with a gun.
I wonder if he cashed his last check from the SPLC?
It’s likely not just or so much the engineering training as the personality of those drawn to the profession.
Correct you are.
I go to X every day and they spew loathing like the Niagara Falls spew water.
You can really see their mindset when a prominent conservative gets killed or dies. Charlie Kirk as an example, I’m still shocked at the glee and unabashed lies they told about him.
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