{"id":607858,"date":"2026-04-26T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:09:11","slug":"what-we-know-about-cole-tomas-allen-the-suspected-whca-dinner-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607858\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About Cole Tomas Allen, the Suspected WHCA Dinner Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">President Trump and other top officials were whisked away from the event while hundreds of attendees sheltered under their tables as gunfire rang out.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">According to his social media and professional profiles, Allen is a teacher, engineer and videogame developer living in southern California. He legally obtained multiple guns before the attack took place, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">He is expected to face charges on Monday, including using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Here\u2019s what we know about Allen.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher from southern California<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Allen lives in Torrance, California, a suburban city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area with a population of around 143,000. Torrance\u2019s mayor, George Chen, released a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TorranceCA\/status\/2048281008450216436?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">on social media <\/a>late Saturday night in response to the reports naming Allen, saying that \u201cone individual\u2019s alleged actions do not define our city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump and other top officials were whisked away from the event while hundreds of attendees sheltered under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3,7688,111,2079,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-607858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-news-desk","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-shooting","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}