Donald Trump’s alleged White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooter has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts – including a new charge.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, had initially been charged with attempting to assassinate the president, transportation of a firearm with intent to commit a felony and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
The new charge is assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
Allen was armed with a shotgun, handgun and knives when he rushed a security checkpoint and ran toward the ballroom at the Washington Hilton on April 25.
The new charge is believed to relate to Allen’s shooting of a Secret Service agent, who was struck in his bullet-resistant vest and not seriously injured. It was not immediately clear in the aftermath whether he had hit the agent.
Trump and many of his top cabinet secretaries were gathered with thousands of journalists for the annual dinner.
Allen traveled by train from his home in California to carry out the attack and allegedly left a note which said that administration officials were his targets and ‘prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.’
Allen has not yet entered a plea.
Cole Tomas Allen is detained after charging security and opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington DC on April 25
