Californian teacher and game developer identified as WHCA Dinner shooting suspect

The man suspected of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California. Public records show he worked as a part-time teacher at C2 Education and described himself as a video game developer; he earned a Caltech bachelor’s in mechanical engineering (2017) and a CS master’s from CSUDominguez Hills, donated to Kamala Harris in 2024, and has released an indie game Bohrdom on Steam with a second game in development.