Allen is in custody, despite initial reports that he was fatally shot, and was taken alive after Secret Service agents neutralized him in the lobby near the security screening area.
“The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody,” New York Post and Fox News reporter Karol Markowicz confirmed in a post on X.
NEWS: The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol)April 26, 2026
Reports indicate Allen assembled a long weapon in an unsecured back room before attempting to open fire near the magnetometers.
Video footage circulating on social media shows law enforcement and Secret Service agents detaining a man on the ground in the Hilton lobby.
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California.
-Video has emerged showing someone on the ground with U.S. Secret Service agents inside the Washington Hilton
-Believed to…https://t.co/EOkEIKYxj1pic.twitter.com/PQoka3QLSR
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)April 26, 2026
Source: The Gateway Pundit
