U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, shot a Secret Service agent as he attempted to storm the Washington Hilton ballroom last weekend.
Pirro, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said new ballistics evidence showed the agent’s protective vest contained a buckshot pellet from the Mossberg pump action shotgun Allen allegedly carried on the night of the shooting.
Allen has been charged by federal prosecutors with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump in the shooting that left one Secret Service agent shot but uninjured. Prosecutors have also charged Allen with the discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, but until Pirro’s comments, law enforcement officials had not disclosed whose bullet hit the agent.
“It is definitively his bullet,” Pirro said. “He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States.”
It’s so far unclear if the determination that Allen was allegedly the person who shot the agent will result in any additional charges. Prosecutors have warned that more charges may be filed in the case.
