Who shot a Secret Service officer at the Trump press dinner?
Court papers do not explicitly accuse the suspect of shooting the officer, even as officials say it was not "friendly fire".
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"There's this insatiable public interest in the case, pressure to get information out to the public."
— Mark Lesko , Academic
"That's what we understand as of now."
— Todd Blanche , Politician
"We wanna get that right, so we're still looking at that."
— Todd Blanche , Politician
"It is definitively his bullet. 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."
— Jeanine Pirro , Politician
"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."
— Jeanine Pirro , Politician
"It is definitively his bullet."
— Jeanine Pirro , Politician
Key People
Cole Tomas Allen is the suspect charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
Former president of the United States known for his aggressive economic policies.
Jeanine Pirro is the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Mark Lesko is a former US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Todd Blanche is the nominee for attorney general and a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump.
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Court papers do not explicitly accuse the suspect of shooting the officer, even as officials say it was not "friendly fire".
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed that ballistic evidence shows the alleged assailant at the White House correspondents’ dinner shot at a Secret Service officer, with a pellet from the defendant’s shotgun found intertwined with the officer's bullet-resistant vest.
Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation.
Investigators have determined that the Secret Service officer who was shot at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was not hit by friendly fire from another member of law enforcement, sources say.
Authorities have confirmed that the suspect accused of attempting to kill President Donald Trump was the one who shot a Secret Service agent at the White House correspondents’ dinner last month.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro stated that ballistic evidence shows the alleged assailant at the White House correspondents’ dinner shot at a Secret Service officer, with a pellet from the defendant’s shotgun found intertwined with the officer's bullet-resistant vest.
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