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Family of Correspondants' Dinner shooting suspect alerted police before attempted attack - report
Family members warned police about anti-Trump and anti-Christian writings before the suspect tried to storm the dinner, officials said.
- On Saturday, April 25, 2026, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen attempted to charge the ballroom at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents Dinner, triggering a shooting that wounded one officer.
- Prior to the attack, Allen's family contacted the New London Police Department to report anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric, with relatives characterizing his writings as a manifesto.
- Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that Allen faces federal charges on Monday for assault of a federal officer and discharging a firearm in an attempt to kill.
- President Donald Trump called Allen 'a very troubled guy' and confirmed the manifesto's existence, asserting that authorities cannot allow criminals to 'change the course of events in our country.'
- FBI agents are searching an address in Torrance, California, connected to Allen, analyzing recovered writings and materials to determine the suspect's motive for the shooting.
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Brother of White House dinner shooting suspect reported alleged manifesto to Connecticut police
Police in New London were alerted to a manifesto by the brother of the man arrested on Saturday after attempting to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to officials.
·New Haven, United States
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President Donald Trump revealed that the suspect who attempted the attack at the press conference was a "man with a mental illness," whose family had alerted authorities to his worrisome behavior.
The document, passed on to his relatives before the shooting, sheds light on the suspect's intentions and targets before he or she is taken to the act.
·Paris, France
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