{"id":15262,"date":"2026-04-26T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15262"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:44:59","slug":"what-we-know-about-gunfire-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15262","title":{"rendered":"What we know about gunfire at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"295\">US President\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and First Lady\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Melania Trump<\/span><\/span>\u00a0were evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner after gunshots were reported at the venue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"450\">The\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">United States Secret Service<\/span><\/span>\u00a0confirmed no injuries and said the suspect, identified as\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Cole Tomas Allen<\/span><\/span>, is in custody.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"641\">Chaos broke out when a man rushed security at the\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Washington Hilton<\/span><\/span>, where the event was held. Reports say multiple shots were fired before security subdued the suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"809\">Trump later said the situation was \u201cshocking\u201d but under control, praising law enforcement and confirming a Secret Service agent survived thanks to a bulletproof vest.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"961\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The historic White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, a tradition since 1921, was briefly locked down and later postponed as authorities secured the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>US President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0and First Lady\u00a0Melania Trump\u00a0were evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner after gunshots were reported at the venue. The\u00a0United States Secret Service\u00a0confirmed no <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15262\" title=\"What we know about gunfire at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}