{"id":568740,"date":"2026-05-06T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568740\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:00:09","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-trump-assassination-indicted-for-assaulting-secret-service-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568740\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted Trump assassination indicted for assaulting Secret Service officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to court documents filed on Tuesday, a grand jury also indicted Allen on charges of attempting to assassinate the US president as well as two firearms offences – transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and using, carrying, brandishing and discharging a firearm during a crime.<\/p>\n

Allen was previously charged on those counts last week via criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The suspect was carrying a semi-automatic handgun, a pump-action shotgun and three knives as he allegedly rushed through a security checkpoint one floor above the basement venue at the Washington Hilton hotel on 25 April, prosecutors have said. <\/p>\n

After gunfire rang out, Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, cabinet members and other White House officials were rushed from the hotel ballroom as dinner attendees sheltered under tables.<\/p>\n

The incident has sparked a White House security review.<\/p>\n

The Torrance, California, man<\/a> studied at the prestigious California Institute of Technology, and worshipped at the Pasadena United Reformed Church in the Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n

Federal campaign finance records show he donated $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024.<\/p>\n

He allegedly sent an email to his family shortly before the attack that said, “Administration officials… are targets, prioritised from highest-ranking to lowest”, according to court records.<\/p>\n

“I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary,” he allegedly added.<\/p>\n

Allen, who remains in custody, could face life in prison if found guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to court documents filed on Tuesday, a grand jury also indicted Allen on charges of attempting to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-568740","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\/568740","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=568740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}