A hearing on the conditions of confinement for Cole Allen, the suspect in the 25 April shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, was scheduled for later on 2026-05-05. Allen remains behind bars pending trial. [1]
Federal prosecutors say Allen rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the event, was armed with multiple weapons and fired at an agent. They say the attack was an attempt to kill President Donald Trump. Allen is charged with attempting to assassinate Trump, interstate transportation of weapons and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime. [1]
Washington U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire. She later said a pellet from Allen’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was embedded in the officer’s bullet-resistant vest. Pirro said, "We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer" and, "It is definitively his bullet." [1]
Allen’s attorneys filed a court document on 2026-05-04 saying he was no longer on suicide watch and sought to withdraw a motion to remove him from that supervision. The filing came one day before the scheduled hearing. [1]
