Pellet found in Secret Service agent's vest links suspect to WHCD attack, Pirro says

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro looks on during a news conference at Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 27. Annabelle Gordon/AFP via hide caption toggle caption Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Investigators have recovered a buckshot pellet from the bulletproof vest worn by a Secret Service agent who was shot at the White House Correspondents' Dinner , according to Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The pellet links the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., to the attack, Pirro told CNN on Sunday. "We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's ⁠Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," Pirro said during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union . "It is definitively his bullet." Allen allegedly ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton where the dinner was underway on April 25 and fired a shotgun at the agent. Allen has been charged with attempted assassination, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and illegally transporting guns and ammunition across state lines. "He hit at that Secret Service agent. He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States," Pirro said. Pirro argued it is clear that President Trump was his target. …