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 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, already subdued by security agents and lying face down on the floor. Authorities have identified him as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old resident of California. At this hour, police are already searching his home in Torrance, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, to try to find clues about the motives that led a teacher to attempt to attack the American president.
Reuters reports from sources in the secret service that Allen had stayed at the Washington Hilton Hotel, the scene of the annual dinner where Trump, for the first time, brought the top brass of his administration. Curiously, fellow Republican Ronald Reagan was very seriously injured when he was shot as he was leaving this same establishment after giving a speech, in March 1981, just as he had begun his term.
The now-detained suspect entered last night [already into the early morning in Catalonia] armed with a shotgun against 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 safe and sound immediately after a few seconds of uncertainty. Trump himself explained that he had initially mistaken the sound of the shots for the falling of food trays.
