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What actually happened To be clear about what the facts are: at approximately 8:35 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday night, Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old mechanical engineer and teacher from Torrance, California, charged through a security checkpoint in the foyer of the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner was being held.
He was armed with a shotgun, a ha:ndgun, and multiple knives. He exchanged fire with law enforcement. One Secret Service agent was struck by gunfire — the round hit his bulletproof vest and he is expected to make a full recovery.
