{"id":49608,"date":"2026-04-26T12:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/what-we-know-about-cole-allen-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:21:23","slug":"what-we-know-about-cole-allen-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/what-we-know-about-cole-allen-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Cole Allen, the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69eddc98367066d7c2971158?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Suspect in the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner shooting\"\/><figcaption>The suspect in the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner shooting was detained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\/Truth Social<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A suspect in the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner shooting is in custody.<\/li>\n<li>Photos of the suspect posted by Trump appear to match those on the LinkedIn profile for Cole Allen.<\/li>\n<li>Allen is a Caltech graduate, an indie video game developer, and a teacher, according to the profile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photos of the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner shooter posted online by President Donald Trump on Saturday night appear to match the LinkedIn profile of Cole Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple outlets, including the Associated Press, have reported that Allen is the suspect now in custody. Business Insider was not able to independently confirm the suspect&#039;s identity. Authorities have not yet publicly identified the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#039;s what we know so far.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, 31, is a resident of Torrance, California. Police conducted a raid on a home in Torrance overnight. Allen describes himself on his LinkedIn as a &quot;mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His current job is listed as part-time teacher at C2 Education, which provides &quot;personalized support designed to improve test scores, strengthen academic skills, and help students reach their full potential.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Allen has been in the role for six years, according to his LinkedIn profile, while also independently designing and building video games, including one he calls &quot;Bohrdom.&quot; Allen described the game online as &quot;a skill-based, non-violent asymmetrical fighting game loosely derived from a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He then earned his master&#039;s in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Carroll, the interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, said during a press conference after the shooting on Saturday night that Allen was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives when he tried to bypass a security checkpoint at the event.<\/p>\n<p>In a video Trump posted to his TruthSocial account, the shooter can be seen running at full speed past security officers.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, said the defendant has been charged with two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of assault on a law enforcement officer using a dangerous weapon. He will be arraigned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect in the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner shooting was detained at the scene. Donald Trump\/Truth Social A suspect in the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner shooting is in custody. Photos of the suspect posted by Trump appear to match those on the LinkedIn profile for Cole Allen. Allen is a Caltech graduate, an indie video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}