{"id":398250,"date":"2026-04-26T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/398250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:08:16","slug":"trump-evacuated-during-shooting-at-washington-dinner-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/398250\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump evacuated during shooting at Washington dinner, in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump was unharmed and other top White House officials were evacuated from an annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association after a man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby and opened fire.<\/p>\n

The shooting suspect was taken into custody and identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. A motive was not immediately known, and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said charges related to Saturday night\u2019s attack will be filed shortly.<\/p>\n

\"Secret<\/p>\n

Secret Service agents surround President Donald Trump, third from left, as he is taken from the stage. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\"Secret<\/p>\n

Secret service agents respond during the White House Correspondents Dinner. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/p>\n

Members of law enforcement control shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen during the White House Correspondents Dinner. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\"Guests<\/p>\n

Guests are assisted and whisked away during the White House Correspondents Dinner. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\"Jeanine<\/p>\n

Jeanine Pirro, United States attorney for the District of Columbia, attends the annual White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An abandoned wine glass sits in a bowl after an incident occurred at the White House Correspondents Dinner. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\"President<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump with first lady Melania Trump, walks in to speak in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump was unharmed and other top White House officials were evacuated from an annual dinner of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-398250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}