Karoline Leavitt Drops Hint – Some Shots Fired
It’ll be funny, it’ll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the correspondence dinner room. So everyone should tune in, it’s going to be really great.
Newscaster Reports on the Secret Service Correspondence Dinner
As President Trump was having his mind read by the evening’s entertainment at the correspondence dinner, several thuds from the gunman could be heard in the ballroom. Initially, neither the president nor the guests took much notice. Then… a column of security, Secret Service and tactical teams swarmed the White House correspondence dinner ballroom. The vice president and President Trump were quickly whisked off stage, followed by the president of the White House press corps, Weijia Zhang. Secret Service jumped tables and flipped chairs to rush cabinet members, including Stephen Miller and a pregnant Katie Miller, at a side door before the gunman entered.
CBS News Reviews the White House Correspondence Dinner
We don’t know the motive of the gunman at this hour, but we do know a man charged a security checkpoint at the Hilton where the White House Correspondents Dinner was taking place. You see the video on your screen. The gunman was charging toward a room full of journalists, politicians, and the President of the United States Donald Trump. Inside that room, because this has become so common in America, you have people that are multiple time victims of political violence. Erica Kirk was in the room. People saw her in tears. Steve Scalise was a table away from me. That’s the reason I’m wearing a tuxedo here as well. He was a victim of political violence. Then of course you have the President Trump. That is the context for what we’re talking about tonight. We also know more about the specifics on the gunman himself. Matt, you’ve been looking into that.
Gunman at the White House Correspondence Dinner
We do have a name right now, Tony. It is Cole Thomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, just south of Los Angeles. Our understanding so far is that he has no known criminal record. We don’t know much more other than the pictures we are now seeing of him being taken down, hands shackled behind him, zip-tied, face down. We do know the gunman Cole Allen he brought at least two weapons in, a shotgun and a handgun. He was able to fire some of them, as you saw him sprint through that security cordon towards that room that was closed off, sealed, as the president had just said, with many, many hundreds of journalists, VIPs, and politicians.
