{"id":139398,"date":"2026-04-30T04:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/new-images-show-suspect-taking-selfies-before-washington-press-dinner-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:02:55","slug":"new-images-show-suspect-taking-selfies-before-washington-press-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/new-images-show-suspect-taking-selfies-before-washington-press-dinner-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"New images show suspect taking selfies before Washington press dinner shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON DC, Apr 30 \u2013 New images included in a memorandum filed by the US government show Cole Tomas Allen \u2013 the man accused of opening fire at a White House Correspondents\u2019 dinner last weekend \u2013 with weapons in a hotel room before the attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors submitted the photos along with new details of the suspect\u2019s activities before the 25 April incident in their motion to keep Allen detained pending trial.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to several charges, including attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the photos show Allen in his hotel room posing in front of a mirror with several weapons strapped to his body, including a sheathed knife, and a bag with ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Allen is accused of carrying a semi-automatic handgun, a pump-action shotgun and three knives as he charged past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"sc-9cd5bb24-0 lmzibM\">\n<div class=\"sc-cd6075cf-0 DQtHs\">\n<div class=\"sc-82b3c53b-0 IAFLu\">\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON DC, Apr 30 \u2013 New images included in a memorandum filed by the US government show Cole Tomas Allen \u2013 the man accused of opening fire at a White House Correspondents\u2019 dinner last weekend \u2013 with weapons in a hotel room before the attack. Prosecutors submitted the photos along with new details of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}