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DOJ says WHCA dinner shooting suspect took mirror selfie before attack
Prosecutors say Cole Allen took the image about 30 minutes before rushing a security checkpoint with guns and knives, and he faces life in prison.
- On Wednesday, federal prosecutors released a selfie Cole Tomas Allen took inside his Washington Hilton Hotel room about 30 minutes before attempting to storm the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner security checkpoint on Saturday night.
- Allen, a 31-year-old California resident, carried a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun and Rock Island Armory 1911 pistol, intending to assassinate President Donald Trump and target cabinet officials at the dinner.
- Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Allen sprinted toward the ballroom holding more than 2000 attendees, prompting Secret Service agents to return fire five times before tackling the defendant.
- Prosecutors wrote, "This was a planned attack of unfathomable malice," and Allen faces a detention hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington to determine if he remains in custody.
- Facing charges including attempted assassination of the President and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, Allen faces a possible life sentence plus a mandatory minimum of 10 years consecutive if convicted.
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Would-be Trump assassin seen smirking and armed to the teeth in haunting selfie snapped moments before trying to murder president
Source link Cole Allen selfie (Courtesy U.S. Department of Justice) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday released a haunting selfie snapped by Cole Allen, the suspect accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner in the nation’s capital. The 31-year-old Allen of Torrance, California, is seen smirking while packing knives, guns and
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In the picture, taken in a mirror, Cole Allen, 31, is immortalized with his arsenal on Saturday night in the room he had reserved for the Hilton Hotel where the annual dinner of the Association of Correspondents in the White House was held.
Man charged with trying to kill Trump took hotel room selfie before rushing to gala
The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife, authorities said Wednesday in a new court filing.Cole Allen wore black pants, a black shirt and a red tie as he snapped the image in his room at the Washington Hilton, where Trump and …
A memorandum submitted by the prosecution to a federal court states, among other details, that the suspect in the attack made a review of the U.S. president's agenda and also took a photograph in the Washington Hilton hotel room minutes before the attack.
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