California Teacher Arrested After Shooting at Trump White House Dinner

The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooting has been named as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California. He works as a teacher and video game developer. Law enforcement subdued Allen near the Washington Hilton, where President Trump and top officials were attending the event. Public records show he taught part-time at C2 Education and was once named teacher of the month. Allen earned a mechanical engineering degree from Caltech and a computer science master’s from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He built an emergency wheelchair brake as a student, released an indie game on Steam, and is developing a second title. Records also show a political donation and multiple weapons were found on him. He was stopped after breaching a security checkpoint. One Secret Service agent was hit in a vest but survived. Motive remains under investigation.

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