Speaking after the event, interim DC Police Chief Jeffery Carroll confirmed the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, had checked into the hotel as a guest before the chaos erupted.
Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives when he allegedly assembled a long weapon in an unsecured back area and opened fire near the magnetometers at the security checkpoint.
“He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives,” Carroll said.
Carroll explained that the suspect and law enforcement officers “exchanged gunfire,” and he ran through the security checkpoint.
The suspect was shot and taken to the hospital to be treated.
DC Police Chief: “Preliminary information; we do believe he was a guest here at the hotel.”pic.twitter.com/3yNSq71MV1
It appears that there is “no reason to believe at this time that anyone else was involved” and that it “does not appear to be any sort of danger to the public,” Carroll said.
🚨 WASHINGTON, DC POLICE PRESS CONFERENCE
Jeffery W. Carroll says an armed suspect (shotgun, handgun, multiple knives) charged a Secret Service checkpoint in Washington, DC.
• Suspect was not shot, taken to hospital for evaluation
Source: The Gateway Pundit
