Allen’s attorneys noted the omission.<\/p>\n
In a filing arguing for his release, defence lawyers wrote: “Moreover, the government, after essentially asserting that Mr Allen shot a Secret Service Officer in the criminal complaint, has apparently retreated from the theory by not mentioning the alleged officer at all in its memorandum.”<\/p>\n
Lawyers for Allen did not immediately return the BBC’s request for comment.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host and now the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, posted new security footage of the incident on X.<\/p>\n
The video shows a gunman, identified by authorities as Allen, running through a security checkpoint at the hotel.<\/p>\n
At one point he appears to raise a shotgun, though it is unclear if he fires.<\/p>\n
The clip also shows a Secret Service officer raising his gun – several muzzle flashes can be seen from his firearm.<\/p>\n
“There is no evidence the shooting was the result of friendly fire,” Pirro wrote. But she did not allege the video showed Allen firing his gun.<\/p>\n
That same day, Secret Service Director Sean Curran told Fox News: “All the evidence that I’ve seen, the suspect shot our officer point-blank range with a shotgun.”<\/p>\n
Reviews of ballistics and other evidence can take weeks, if not months, and authorities will probably release more information as the case continues.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, whether the defendant shot the officer or not may not matter too much to prosecutors if they can secure a conviction.<\/p>\n
“They have enough charges here to put Allen away for a very long time”, if a jury finds him guilty, Lesko said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen’s attorneys noted the omission. In a filing arguing for his release, defence lawyers wrote: “Moreover, the government,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-561577","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}