Who is Cole Allen, the man who shot at the journalists' dinner with Trump?
This is a 31-year-old Californian teacher, who has been subdued and detained
BarcelonaDonald Trump was quick to show the face of the man who allegedly burst in shooting into the room where the President of the United States and other high authorities of the country were celebrating the traditional dinner of the journalists covering the White House. Trump posted the photograph of the man on his social network, who had already been subdued by security agents and was lying on the ground face down. Authorities have identified him as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old resident of California. At this point, the police are already searching his home in Torrance, in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles, to try to find clues about the motives that led a teacher to attempt an attack against the American president.
According to Reuters, citing sources from the secret service, Allen had been staying at the Hotel Washington Hilton, the venue for the annual dinner that Trump would attend for the first time with the top brass of his administration. Curiously, fellow Republican Ronald Reagan was very seriously injured when he was shot while leaving this same establishment after giving a speech in March 1981, when he had barely begun his term.
The suspect now arrested entered last night [already into the early hours of the morning in Catalonia] armed with a shotgun and fired at the agents guarding the entrance to the room where hundreds of people were distracted by the first course of the dinner, presided over by Trump, the First Lady, Melania Trump, and Vice President JD Vance, who were evacuated safely immediately after a few seconds of uncertainty. Trump himself explained that he had initially mistaken the sound of the shots for trays of food falling.