Video shows Cole Allen casing hotel, storming checkpoint in alleged Trump assassination attempt

Dramatic surveillance video released Thursday shows alleged would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen casing a hallway at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 24, and then the next evening, storming through a Secret Service checkpoint at that hotel outside the White House Correspondents' Association dinner , where President Donald Trump was set to give a speech. The video shows a Secret Service officer quickly pulling his handgun and firing multiple times at Allen as he sprints toward and through the checkpoint with what prosecutors have said was a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun in his hands. The new video was posted on X by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro , whose office is prosecuting Allen, a 31-year-old Caltech grad and tutor from Torrance, California. Pirro said investigators have found no evidence to indicate that a Secret Service agent who was struck by gunfire during the incident was shot by another member of law enforcement, but did not elaborate on that claim. The agent was not seriously injured because the shot was stopped by protective gear, Trump has said.