April 27, 2026
SHOTS NEAR THE HEAD TABLE: THE COLE ALLEN WHITE HOUSE DINNER ATTACK
A teacher of the month, a Caltech engineer, a hotel room on the 10th floor — and the night gunfire reached the President's first Correspondents' Dinner.
On Saturday, April 25th, the White House Correspondents' Dinner had barely begun when shots rang out near the magnetometers outside the Washington Hilton ballroom. President Trump, the First Lady, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet were rushed to safety. A Secret Service agent took a round in his vest. The accused gunman: Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a Caltech-educated teacher and indie video game developer from Torrance, California — a man with no record, no warning, and a one-way train ticket from Los Angeles. Garret Fisher walks through what happened, who he is, and what we don't yet know.
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On Saturday, April 25th, the White House Correspondents' Dinner had barely begun when shots rang out near the magnetometers outside the Washington Hilton ballroom. President Trump, the First Lady, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet were rushed to safety. A Secret Service agent took a round in his vest. The accused gunman: Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a Caltech-educated teacher and indie video game developer from Torrance, California — a man with no record, no warning, and a one-way train ticket from Los Angeles. Garret Fisher walks through what happened, who he is, and what we don't yet know.
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You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.
But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.
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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning. I'm Garrett Fisher. This is
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Daily Crime Injustice for Monday, April twenty seventh, twenty twenty six,
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and we are doing something different today. We are setting
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aside the show I had built for you. We are
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setting it aside because of what happened Saturday night in Washington, DC,
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eight thirty six pm Eastern Saturday, April twenty fifth, the
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Washington Hilton Hotel. Inside the cavernous ballroom on the lower level,
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twenty six hundred guests were settling in for the White
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House Correspondence Association dinner. Tuxedos, gowns, salad plates being set down.
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President Donald Trump, First Lady Milania Trump, Vice President J. D. Vance,
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Cabinet members, congressional leadership, journalists, dignitaries all in the room.
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The President of the United States was the head table
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for the first time in his political career, attending this
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dinner as a sitting president for the very first time,
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and the program had just barely started. Outside the ballroom,
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up the stairs near the main magnetometer screening area, the
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same metal detectors every guest had walked through on the
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way in. A man in his early thirties came barreling through.
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He was wearing all black in one hand, a shotgun
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on him, a handgun on him, multiple knives, and he
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had a clear line of sight down to where the
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President of the United States was sitting. Five to eight shots.
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That is the count law enforcement is giving us right now.
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Five to eight shots in maybe twenty seconds. Secret Service
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agents drew their weapons and engaged one of them. Took
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around in the vest and is going to be okay.
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The shooter never made it past the checkpoint into the ballroom.
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He was tackled to the ground, handcuffed, and removed from
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the building alive. Trump was rushed off stage. J. D.
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Vance was rushed off stage. Robert F. Kennedy Junior was
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rushed out with his wife Cheryl Hines. House speaker Mike
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Johnson was rushed out. Marco Rubio dove under his table
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at the front of the room. From one corner of
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the ballroom, a chant of God Bless America started up
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as the President was hustled toward an exit. The man
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with the shotgun has a name, Cole Thomas Allen. He
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is thirty one years old. He is a teacher from Torrance, California,
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named teacher of the Month at the tutoring company where
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he worked just sixteen months ago. He is a cal
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Tech graduate with a master's degree in computer science. He
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has no criminal record. He has until Saturday night, never
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been on the radar of federal law enforcement. And he
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traveled across the entire country by train from Los Angeles
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to Chicago to Washington, checked into the same hotel where
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the dinner was being held, the same hotel where Ronald
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Reagan was shot in nineteen eighty one, by the way,
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and we are going to get to that, and then
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walk downstairs in a tuxedo of guns and tried to
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do what investigators say he intended to do, shoot people
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who work in the Trump administration. That is where we are.
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That is the night. The arraignment is happening today Monday
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in federal court in DC. The investigation is roughly thirty
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six hours old as I'm sitting here recording this. There
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is a great deal we do not yet know. But
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here's what we do know, and we are going to
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walk through all of it. Who he is, what he did,
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What investigators are finding in his apartment, his hotel room,
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his computer, his writings, and what questions this whole thing
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leaves on the table about security at events the President
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of the United States is attending in the year twenty
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twenty six, when this is the third attempt on his
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life inside of two years. Stay with me. Let me
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set the scene properly, because the room itself, the White
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House Correspondence Dinner, is the biggest night the Washington Press
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Corps throws all year, twenty six hundred people in a
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single ballroom, reporters, network anchors, cabinet officials, members of Congress, donors, celebrities,
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the President of the United States. Traditionally headlines. There is comedy,
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there is awards, there are speeches, And for the first
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time in his entire political career, Donald Trump was attending
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as a sitting president. He had skipped the dinner all
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four years of his first term. He had agreed to
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come this year, and the room was frankly tense before
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anybody fired a shot. In the weeks leading up to Saturday,
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more than two hundred and fifty journalists had signed an
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open letter calling for what they described as a forceful
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pushback against Trump. At the event, huff Post had pulled
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out and boycotted entirely Jim Acosta had called for reporters
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to walk out. The mood inside the Washington Hillton on
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Saturday evening was already heavy with the politics of the
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night before anyone heard a noise. The entertainment had been booked.
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A mentalist named Oz Pearlman was set to perform waigiad
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Jiang of CBS News. The president of the White House
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Correspondence Association, had taken the stage to welcome everyone. Salad
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plates were going down, Waiters were clearing them. The dinner
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had not even reached the entree. And here is the
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security detail that matters. Once the President was seated and
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the head table was locked in, no more guests were
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being admitted to the ballroom, which meant that Secret Service
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personnel had begun by protocol to take down the magnetometer
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screening area outside the ballroom doors. The metal detectors were
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being disassembled, The line was empty, The post was beginning
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its breakdown. That is the moment Cole Thomas Allen came
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down the stairs. He had been a guest at the
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Hilton since Friday. Investigators tell us his room was on
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the tenth floor. He had checked in the day before
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the dinner and on Saturday at eight thirty six pm.
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He came down to the lobby level wearing all black
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and carrying a shotgun openly in his hand. Surveillance video
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that the President himself later released on Truth Social shows
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what happens next. Alan sprints passed the checkpoint. Officers turn,
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they draw, He gets off shots. They get off shots.
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One Secret Service agent is hit in the chest, but
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the round buries into his bullet resistant vest. He stays standing.
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He stays in the fight. Alan is brought to the
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ground inside of seconds. He is not hit by gunfire.
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He is alive. He has taken into custody and removed
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inside the ballroom. The experience is different depending on where
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you were sitting. Olivia Rinaldi of CBS News, who had
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been at Butler, Pennsylvania when Trump was shot in twenty
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twenty four, was at the dinner Saturday. She told her
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network she heard what sounded like three to four successive shots.
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She said it originally sounded like plates falling, loud noises,
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but she had been at Butler, she knew that was gunfire.
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She could smell the gunpowder. The President himself, at the
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head table said something different. He said he heard a
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noise and thought it was a tray going down. He
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said it was Milania who recognized it first. He told
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reporters later, and I am paraphrasing him here, that Milania
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was very cognizant. He said she immediately knew it was
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a bad noise. He said it was a rather traumatic
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experience for her. Across the ballroom. Video captured the next
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ten seconds Cabinet members diving under tables, Marco Rubio under
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his table, looking across at his wife, looking up at Trump,
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trying to figure out what was happening. Tactical agents jumping
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over chairs and tables, weapons drawn, sprinting toward the dais,
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the first lady ducking, the Vice President being walked off
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stage by an agent on each elbow, and then the
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rest of them, Ert F. Kennedy Junior and Cheryl Hines speaker,
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Mike Johnson, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott bessentt
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FBI Director Cash Pttel House Majority Leader Steve Scalise being
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moved out one by one, table by table as agents
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went and got them from one corner of the room.
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Somebody started a God bless America chant. The president was
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being walked off as it began. The dinner never resumed.
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They tried briefly Waiga. John got back on stage and
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announced the program would continue in a moment. By nine
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to twenty pm, the Secret Service was clearing the room.
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Dinner had not been served. The waiters had been picking
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up salad plates when the lockdown happened. The night was over.
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Jong told the room from the stage that the President
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had insisted the dinner be rescheduled within thirty days. The
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journalists in the room, and this is to their credit,
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we're already on the phone calling in copy as they
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were being walked out the door. Within an hour, Trump
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was at the White House briefing room. He was flanked
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by Vice President Vance Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, Secretary Hegseth,
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Secretary Rubio, FBI Director Patel, Acting Attorney General Todd blanche.
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He praised the Secret Service. He called the suspect a
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lone wolf and a sick person, and said, when asked
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if he believed he had been the target quote, when
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you're impactful, they go after you. When you're not impactful,
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they leave you alone. He also took the opportunity to
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point out that the Washington Hilton, in his words, was
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not a particularly secure building, and used that as an
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argument for the new ballroom he is having built at
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the White House to replace the East Wing. We are
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going to leave that one alone. Look, I'm going to
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be honest with you. There is something almost unbearably American
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about the fact that the Knight, the President of the
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United States, walks into a room full of journalists for
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the first time in his political career, at a dinner
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that is supposed to be about a free press, in
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the relationship between the people who govern and the people
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who cover them. That is the night a man with
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a shotgun comes through the door. We have lived through
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several iterations of this. Now Butler, Pennsylvania, July twenty twenty
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four Thomas Crooks on a rooftop who killed a spectator
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and put around through Trump's ear before Secret Service killed him.
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The golf course in West Palm Beach in September of
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that year, where Ryan Routh lay in the bushes with
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a rifle and was spotted by an agent before he
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could fire. Routh was convicted last year and sentenced to life.
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In February and now Saturday Night at the Washington Hilton,
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three three attempts in less than two years, and the
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people whose entire job it is to stop them have
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three times done exactly that. The Secret Service agent who
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took a round in his vest Saturday night gets to
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go home to his family because he was wearing the vest.
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That is not a small thing. That is the difference
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between a story I'm telling you on a Monday morning
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and a national tragedy. So who is Cole Thomas Allen.
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He is thirty one years old. He is from Torrance, California,
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which is a coastal suburb in the South Bay region
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of Los Angeles, about twenty miles south of downtown LA.
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The mayor of Torrance, George Chen, issued a statement Saturday
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night condemning what happened and saying that one resident's alleged
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actions do not define the community. The city has about
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one hundred and forty three thousand residents. Allan had lived
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there most of his life since he was a teenager,
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with a stretch in San Gabriel for about a year
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and a half between twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. He
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has four siblings, two sisters a brother. He had been
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living with his parents at their house. FBI agents and
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tactical gear with armored vehicles surrounded that house Saturday night.
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While helicopter circled overhead. The neighbors stood out in the
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drizzle and watched. All describes himself on his LinkedIn profile
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this way quote a mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree,
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independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth. Let me
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walk you through that resume. He went to the California
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Institute of Technology Caltech, one of the most selective scientific
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universities in the country. He graduated in twenty seventeen with
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a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. While he was there,
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he was a member of two student organizations he listed publicly,
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the Caltech Christian Fellowship and the Caltech nerf Club that
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is on the record. He had an internship at NASA's
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was featured in a local Los
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Angeles ABC News story his senior year for a senior project.
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He had developed a prototype emergency brake system for wheelchairs
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to help elderly users. He worked for a year as
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a mechanical engineer after graduation, then he became, in his
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own words, an independent video game developer. He published a
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game on the Steam platform in twenty eighteen, called Boredom
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bohr Dom. He registered the trademark in twenty eighteen. The
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game sales for one dollar and ninety nine cents. The
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description on Steam and I Am quoting it because it
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Matters calls it a skill based, nonviolent asymmetrical fighting game
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loosely derived from a chemistry model that is itself loosely
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based on reality. He told prospective buyers to think of
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it as a hybrid of a bullet hell and a
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racing game, with the inclusion of self propelled pinballs. He
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composed the music himself. He drew over seven hundred and
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fifty original graphics. He was working on a second game,
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working title First Law. In twenty twenty, he started picking
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up tutoring work at a company called C two Education.
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C two helps high school students prepare for the SAT
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and college admissions. He worked at the Torrents branch. He
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stayed there for about six years. In December of twenty
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twenty four, the company named him Teacher of the Month.
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They put a celebratory post up on Facebook congratulating him.
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While he was tutoring, he went back to school. He
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enrolled at California State University Dominguez Hills in twenty twenty
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two to pursue a master's degree in computer science. He
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graduated in May of twenty twenty five. The chair of
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the program, a professor named Bin Tang, talked to the
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Associated Press on Sunday. Professor Tang said Alan was a
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very good student, sat in the front row, paid attention,
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frequently emailed with course questions. The president of an organization
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called the Asian American Civic Trust, a man named Dylan Wakayama,
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told The Los Angeles Times that Alan had tutored high
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school students who were members of the organization. Wakayama said
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the students described Alan as very intelligent, proficient in biology,
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proficient in math. In October of twenty twenty four, Alan
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