Who is Cole Tomas Allen as charges he
faces over White House Correspondents'
Dinner shooting are revealed
Daily Mail (UK),
by
James Gordon
,
Shawn Cohen
&
Josh Boswell
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
4/26/2026 8:50:40 AM
Suspected White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen is facing at least three charges, authorities said.
Allen, 31, is accused of opening fire as the President gathered with senior cabinet members and thousands of journalists for the annual event on Saturday night.
The dinner at the Washington Hilton was barely underway when the Secret Service was forced to leap into action after a series of shots rang out. They managed to apprehend the suspect after he breached a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement, authorities said.
The alleged shooter has since been identified as Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California.
Federal prosecutors have moved quickly and already
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"Cops swarmed on Allen's parents' $877,000 home on Saturday night shortly after he was arrested. Despite the scale of the attack, officials say Allen had no prior criminal record and was not previously known to law enforcement in Washington, DC. He is one of four siblings, including two sisters, Stephanie and Arviana, and a brother, Gabriel, according to publicly available information.
Photographs circulating online show him smiling alongside family members at graduations and gatherings. His social media details he is highly educated and academically accomplished. On LinkedIn, he describes himself as: 'A mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.' Allen earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and later a Master of Science in Computer Science from a California State University."
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Sadly, we have to go to a UK news source to find out anything about this guy!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/26/2026 9:01:36 AM (No. 2097314)
How recently has he 'Liked' Hasan Piker's podcast?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
texaspast 4/26/2026 9:02:14 AM (No. 2097315)
And again, the Brit press scoops the entire US press corps(e) .
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DaddyO 4/26/2026 9:07:52 AM (No. 2097321)
Mechanical engineering and computer science degrees, and he's working at a SAT prep school?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Encore 4/26/2026 9:12:41 AM (No. 2097323)
And, I repeat myself…’Education is not synonymous with intelligence’.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/26/2026 9:16:05 AM (No. 2097325)
I think that I will wait for the investigation to conclude before expressing too many opinions. I do however wonder when he was radicalized? Its not like this guy was stupid, poor or victimized. So, im real interested in hearing his motives.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 4/26/2026 9:46:18 AM (No. 2097345)
It's DC. some liberal judge will let him walk...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/26/2026 10:00:06 AM (No. 2097352)
If things work right, the perpetrator should be considered to be a dead man walking, passing through legal process, annd awaiting facing a firing squad. But of course in DC things are known not work right, so don’t be surprised if some leftist Democrat federal district judge does not give the perpetrator a cash bond and releases him to return to California.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/26/2026 10:37:05 AM (No. 2097368)
The DM leaves off any mention of his political donations to Democrats.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/26/2026 10:52:14 AM (No. 2097374)
#8, I am sure that Boasberg has already been contacted.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/26/2026 11:06:37 AM (No. 2097380)
If 0 had a son.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
padiva 4/26/2026 11:11:13 AM (No. 2097383)
So...do you think he will have lots of 'friends' in his new home?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/26/2026 11:50:30 AM (No. 2097397)
A usual suspect with riches, an education and not the good sense God gave a turnip.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2026 12:12:50 PM (No. 2097408)
Half black, like The Zero....white mother, black father. And a vicious, foaming at the mouth leftist who said that Trump is looting the Treasury of billions and that Elon Musk is "literally a Nazi". Drink from the Fountain of Hate long enough and it rots your brain. And living too much in the world of video games is not healthy for a mind.
Dangerously unbalanced by MSNBC and CNN propaganda, clearly.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2026 1:47:53 PM (No. 2097452)
In his rant, the shooter said he chose buckshot for his shotgun. So, now we know.
I'm still very, very disappointed in the SS marksmanship. How many shots fired an ZERO hits? Incompetent is not too strong a word.
All Presidential protective officers should spend 4 hours a day in the range, practicing with a SEAL instructor until they can meet the SEAL qualification test for handgun. I've taken the test myself, it's not easy but certainly should be the minimum skill level for SS Presidential detail.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mifla 4/27/2026 6:11:00 AM (No. 2097609)
The left has stopped arguing and started shooting.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ruhn 4/27/2026 9:44:19 AM (No. 2097697)
Allen is what happens when you're fed a steady diet of news feeds and social media that 1) peddles in half-truths or outright lies and 2) dehumanizes your political opponents. Allen believed (and wanted to believe) all that he chose to ingest. This is the sobering fate of Cole Tomas Allen and others like him:
"...if you gaze into the abyss long enough, the abyss gazes back at you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan 4/27/2026 9:51:52 AM (No. 2097704)
Who cares who he is or where he went to college? He’s just another lunatic who thinks he has some God given right to kill people he doesn’t like. Too bad the SS guy missed his shot.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/27/2026 11:09:33 AM (No. 2097730)
Who is Cole Tomas Allen? A lemming who blindly followed the lying left and tried to kill a President. I blame Allen for allowing himself to be manipulated. I blame the left for manipulating him.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 4/27/2026 11:14:48 AM (No. 2097731)
This lunatic's manifesto sounds like a MS NOW host's rantings.
This crazy has been radicalized.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/27/2026 12:33:15 PM (No. 2097774)
I hear Lucifer is looking to upgrade his computers, looks like Allen is the prime candidate.
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