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A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists\u2019 dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The president was uninjured and was hustled away.<\/p>\n
Guests went diving under tables as the scene unfolded and some reported hearing shots outside the vast subterranean ballroom in the Washington Hilton where the event was being held.<\/p>\n
One law enforcement official said a gunman had opened fire. A law enforcement officer was shot in the bullet-resistant vest but is expected to be OK, several sources told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
The shooting suspect \u2014 described by Trump as a \u201csick person\u201d \u2014 was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, two law enforcement officials told the AP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re impactful, they go after you. When you\u2019re not impactful, they leave you alone,\u201d Trump, safe and uninjured and still in his tuxedo, said at the White House two hours later. \u201cThey seem to think he was a lone wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking from the White House, Trump describes the scene after Saturday\u2019s shooting incident at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate indication of any other involvement, and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had \u201cno reason\u201d to believe anyone else was involved. Video posted by Trump showed the suspect running past security barricades as Secret Service agents ran toward him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere does not appear to be any sort of danger to the public at this time,\u201d Bowser said at a separate news conference.<\/p>\n
All officials protected by the Secret Service were evacuated. Those in attendance included Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio \u2014 and many other leaders of the Trump administration on a night when the nation is at war with Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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