{"id":492,"date":"2026-04-26T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/04\/26\/cole-tomas-allen-everything-we-know-about-the-suspected-white-house-correspondents\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:19:00","slug":"cole-tomas-allen-everything-we-know-about-the-suspected-white-house-correspondents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/04\/26\/cole-tomas-allen-everything-we-know-about-the-suspected-white-house-correspondents\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30b3\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u30c8\u30fc\u30de\u30b9\u30fb\u30a2\u30ec\u30f3\uff1a\u30db\u30ef\u30a4\u30c8\u30cf\u30a6\u30b9\u62c5\u5f53\u8a18\u8005\u7591\u60d1\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u5206\u304b\u3063\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3053\u3068\u5168\u3066"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-553627\">\n<div>\n<p><span><span>\u8aad\u66f8\u6642\u9593\uff1a <\/span> <span> 2<\/span> <span>\u5206<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019ve likely heard by now, a man rushed a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with police at Saturday night\u2019s White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>That man has now been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old California native.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Allen traveled across the country by train with the goal of targeting Trump administration officials.<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. \"   src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2272612894-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. <span> (Photo by Andrew Leyden\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When he entered the lobby of the Washington Hilton Hotel, Allen was allegedly armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.<\/p>\n<p>One Secret Service agent was struck by a bullet, but he was wearing a bulletproof vest and is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-cole-allen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS News<\/a> and other outlets, Allen purchased the guns legally. Officials said he has no criminal record and was not on the radar of any law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities tell the outlet that \u201cat least five to eight gunshots\u201d were fired before the suspect was subdued and apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has been identified as an educator from Torrance, California, with an engineering degree from Cal Tech.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe title=\"Preliminary investigation suggests WHCD shooter was targeting Trump admin, Acting AG Blanche says\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-cookieconsent=\"statistics, marketing\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZG40j4Za68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div class=\"cookieconsent-optout-statistics cookieconsent-optout-marketing\">\u53d7\u3051\u5165\u308c\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044 <a href=\"javascript:Cookiebot.renew()\">statistics, marketing<\/a> \u3053\u306e\u52d5\u753b\u3092\u8996\u8074\u3059\u308b\u306b\u306f\u30af\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u304c\u5fc5\u8981\u3067\u3059\u3002.<\/div> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Investigators say they found anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on his social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>He was \u201ctackled to the ground\u201d and handcuffed before he was able to present any threat to President Trump, who was immediately evacuated from the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Allen is believed to have been acting alone.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been widespread speculation about his beliefs and possible motives, but those rumors remain unconfirmed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he knew that Allen was targeting administration officials, Blanche said he wished to keep his remarks \u201cgeneral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still looking into that. We know there were some writings, and we\u2019ve already spoken with several witnesses who knew him,\u201d he told Kristen Welker of <em>Meet the Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as threats that may have been communicated before, we\u2019re still actively investigating that evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blanche added that he believes Allen was \u201ctargeting members of the administration, likely including the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes As you\u2019ve likely heard by now, a man rushed a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with police at Saturday night\u2019s White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. That man has now been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old California native. According to a statement from acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Allen traveled across the country by train with the goal of targeting Trump administration officials. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Leyden\/Getty Images) When he entered the lobby of the Washington Hilton Hotel, Allen was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[173,29,7,2,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-email","category-featured","category-hollywood","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}