What We Know About Correspondent's Dinner Shooter 

关于记者晚宴枪击案我们所知之事

CNN This Morning

2026-04-27

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The suspect in Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting has been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old teacher and tutor from Torrance, California. Allen, who was arrested at the scene after shooting a Secret Service agent (who survived due to a vest), reportedly targeted the event with a "manifesto" expressing intent to attack the Trump administration. The BIG question right now: How did he get so close to all these high-ranking government officials?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • This is CNN Breaking News.

  • We very much wanted to continue it because I do n't like to let these sick people,

  • these thugs, these horrible, horrible people, change the fabric of our life, change the course of what we do.

  • So the White House Correspondents Dinner, a Washington tradition attacked by a gunman Saturday night.

  • The suspect will face a federal judge just a few hours from now.

  • And I want to thank you for joining us on CNN this morning.

  • I'm Audie Cornish in Washington.

  • Sarah Seidner is with me from New York.

  • And Sarah, of course, we were both in the room as all this unfolded.

  • And just to show folks your point of view from that night, you actually started taking some video.

  • All right, so this morning we're also learning more about the suspect in that shooting.

  • He's a 31-year-old teacher from California.

  • And just before the shooting, he emailed a message to his family,

  • writing he was targeting Trump administration officials.

  • And the question this morning is, how did he get so close to all these high-ranking officials in government,

  • including the president, the vice president, several top-ranking cabinet members?

  • And this afternoon, President Trump sat down with — that afternoon,

  • he sat down with 60 Minutes, and he also faced questions about the suspect's motives.

  • I read a manifesto.

  • He's radicalized.