Cole Tomas Allen Indicted for Attempted Presidential Assassination at White House Dinner

A four-count federal indictment charges 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during the April 25, 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., including assaulting a U.S. Secret Service officer with a deadly weapon and related firearms offenses after traveling from California with a cache of ammunition; he was restrained after a gunfight with agents and arrested at the scene, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia leading the prosecution and the FBI and MPD investigating.