Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
NPR has learned the suspected gunman at Saturday night's White House correspondent's dinner
has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen.
NPR's Lydia Kalitri reports he's a teacher and engineer from Torrance, California.
Cole Allen graduated from Caltech in 2017 and worked as a part-time teacher at a tutoring service for high school students
in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
The White House says Allen wanted to target administration officials.
A White House official not authorized to speak publicly says the Secret Service spoke with Allen's sister.
She told them her brother had a tendency to make radical statements,
and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do, quote, something to fix the issues with today's world.
NPR's Lydia Kalitri reporting.
The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned today in Washington on multiple federal charges.
President Trump is praising the response of the Secret Service and law enforcement to the attack on the event.
But as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, he is also back to criticizing the press and Democrats.
In the hours after the dinner, Trump hit a note of unity.
Then Sunday, in an interview with 60 Minutes,
he was asked about political violence in America and what he as president can do to change the trajectory in the country.
It's always been there.
People are.
Assassinated, people are injured, people are hurt.