WASHINGTON DC: The suspect detained after a shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner is believed to have made it past the outermost layer of security at the event at which President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak because he was a guest of the hotel, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n
Security for the annual event is always tight when the president attends, especially given the venue\u2019s history \u2014 45 years ago, the Washington Hilton was the site of an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan \u2014 and law enforcement argued that their \u201cmulti-layered protection\u201d worked as designed.<\/p>\n
Still, the incident was sure to set off more questions about security around the president and political events after high-profile acts of political violence in recent years.<\/p>\n
The interim police chief for Washington D.C.\u2019s Metropolitan Police Department, Jeffery Carroll, told reporters Saturday evening that investigators believe the suspect was staying in the hotel and that appears to be how he was able to enter the hotel at the time of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON DC: The suspect detained after a shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner is believed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-632173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}