Videos from an eyewitness showed a man believed to be the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Association dinner shooting being detained by security personnel on Saturday (April 25).

Reuters was able to verify the location from flooring, lights, television, and windows that match corroborating footage. Reuters was able to confirm the date from file data. The armed man fired at a Secret Service agent, an FBI official told Reuters.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the dinner in Washington by Secret Service agents on Saturday night after a man opened fire on security personnel nearby.

The man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel before being tackled and arrested. Trump told reporters at a hastily arranged briefing at the White House later that the officer was saved by his bulletproof vest and is in "good shape."

The suspect arrested in the shooting was identified by a law enforcement official as Cole Tomas Allen, a Los Angeles-area man who appears from social media sites to be a Caltech graduate working as a part-time teacher and game developer.

The official said Allen, approximately 31 years of age, is a resident of Torrance, California, a coastal town that is part of the South Bay area adjacent to Los Angeles abutting Santa Monica Bay.

The chief of the District of Columbia police department said investigators believe the suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the annual dinner was taking place, but that no motive had been determined.

It was not immediately clear whether Trump was the target of the attack, though he told reporters he believed that he was. The president has survived two previous attempts on his life since 2024, a period of deepening political polarization in the United States.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (APRIL 25, 2026) (DONALD J TRUMP VIA TRUTH SOCIAL - No resales / No archive / Must on -screen courtesy Donald J Trump via Truth Social)

1. SURVEILLANCE CAMERA FOOTAGE SAID TO SHOW SUSPECTED SHOOTER AT WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER RUNNING PAST SECURITY CHECKPOINT AS SECURITY PERSONNEL DRAW THEIR WEAPONS

WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES, (APRIL 25, 2026) (BILL FRISCHLING - No resales/ No archive/ Must on-screen courtesy Bill Frischling/ CQ Roll Call)

1. MAN STANDING BY STAIRS / SECURITY PERSONNEL AT DOOR, SHOUTING (English): “Just open the door!”

2. MEN WHO IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS FBI WALKING UPSTAIRS

3. CORDON TAPES / SECURITY PERSONNEL

4. SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING NEXT TO SUSPECT DETAINED ON FLOOR WRAPPED IN FOIL

5. (MUTE) VARIOUS STILL PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUSPECTED SHOOTER