The gunman who attempted to gain entry to the White House Correspondents Association dinner has been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a schoolteacher from Torrance, California. A registered Democrat who donated to Kamala Harris campaign.
Cole Tomas Allen Engineering at Cal Tech 2013 – 2017, a master’s degree in computer science 2025.
Early reports suggest the shooter was a guest of the Washington hotel and assembled a long rifle prior to making entry to the venue. According to local police, the suspect was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and several knives. The suspect was not struck by gunfire. One of the Secret Service Agents was shot during the gunfire.
Avriana F. Allen, 27, of Washington, D.C., is the sister of Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old Torrance, California teacher identified by authorities as the suspect in the April 25, 2026, shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Public records confirm the sibling relationship through shared mother Kathleen A. Allen and prior family address in Torrance. {source}
Full press briefing from law enforcement is below.
Keystone Cops can’t shoot!
Pitiful
Around 6 shots, don’t think he fired, more training. Agent he ran past had his back to the entry point. Just luck for the suspect.
One Secret Service agent was shot in the chest. Did he get shot by the SS or the perp?
Perp.
Perp should have died on the spot with at least a dozen gunshot wounds
Just sayin
Exactly! This whole thing is terrible. Can you imagine the horror if this was attempted by assassins who actually knew what they were doing instead of a Woke California Nerd? 🤔
Obama directed after Dallas that Democrats like this must be rehabilitated.
Rehab starting with full on Waterboarding of the Non- Amish perp to find the whole truth of his reasons for his Presidential Assassination attempt, to she if he was involved in a Coup plot against President Trump. Then watch the Marxist Dems scream and howl!
“If the Heaves may fall,.. Let Justice be Done!”
Then people would say that “he was killed to be silenced.”
There’s no winning with some people.
😏
Egg-zackly!
NO , we want assassins captured alive !!!
How many Secret Service Agents does it take to kill an assassin?
We still don’t know
We all know how many Secret Service agents it takes to betray a sitting US President..
Just look at what happened on November 22, 1963
Lots of failures coming out. Easy to copy entry ticket, no bag search, area clear between magnometers, lax security watchers. Hotel patrons mixed with guests in the lobby. This is for the President of the United States.
He watched and waited for the agents to be distracted!
I think in this case it will be very valuable to learn his motivations and who influences him.
NO , we want him alive
Great shirt. Gotta get one.
Never twice without thrice. – SAD for President Trump, he knows.
I am curious if this crazy night would have happened if the President had decided not to attend the event.
I think not.
When the WH ballroom is finished this event could take place there, and with far more reliable security.
One reporter on British news put forward they thought it was a Trump supporter aiming for mass slaughter of ‘journalists’. Then it came out he supported Harris.
Fox TV News interviewing their correspondent Jacqui Heinrich who was at the dinner and had to take cover
She’s still in her glamour event dress gown and doing nothing to dispel the characterization that Fox mainly hires attractive blondes
… I must say
I think I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for a re-broadcast or excerpts
👀
Heinrich belongs on CNN or M-snow.
No doubt. Her “partner” is Brian Fitzpatrick, the congress critter from PA who is a Dem disguised as a RINO!
Fitzpatrick’s district went from fairly red to purple when the Dem-dominated PA Supreme Court re-did boundaries done by the PA legislature after the 2020 census.
His district mainly consists of Bucks County (borders Philly on the northeast). Many upper – middle class (median income $100K and up) areas in the central section of the county. Contains two of the five wealthiest school districts in PA.
Also a former FBLie employee.
WH reporter for Fox News.
…and that communicate well —or you don’t like attractive women ?!?
You got me all wrong, Ghoul
I enjoyed both the quality of the communication as well as the neckline
The sister Avriana Allen. Appears to be a very well-off and educated family. I don’t know where the hatred comes from because they certainly aren’t disadvantaged…
Avriana Allen | About https://share.google/Ez1hdMPzvyK9mS8db
Was she attending the event? Journalism degree.
I’d give you good odds they both went to a top California private school for high school.
^^^ That photo tells me all I need to know
Yep! The mother is not very attractive and dad looks like a TV News Anchor!
?!
Mudshark.
Definitely Not Amish,… try again Marxist MSM/Dims.
what does it tell you?
If you take black gun crime out of the statistics the US becomes one of the top five safest countries in the world!
If you take Hispanic gun crime out we probably are the safest country in the world.
DataRepublian, if you are reading please confirm.
Exactly, jane
When immigration was out of control, the Dems had this trope about American citizens crime was at higher rates than immigrants
My response was “yeah, but if you subtract black and Hispanic crime from the so-called ‘American’ column, America would look like frikken’ Luxembourg“
A real life Cosby family
The family may or may not share his views. We don’t know. They are now under threat by this photo and disclosure. This is doxxing.
Wasn’t Luigi Mangione from a wealthy family also? Not sure if that makes much difference anymore.
All this hate has been ginned up by the media. Going on 11 years of mocking, insulting, tearing down, and badmouthing our patriotic president in every possible way, all the time. Even when he does something they clamored for they still find fault. And with his family, his cabinet, his administration, his companies, his supporters.
And with his country.
That 11 years of propaganda and hate, really indoctrination, programmed a legion of useful idiots for the cause.
In the grand scheme of things, useful idiots are expendable to the ones pulling their strings.
Little progress will be made without getting to the root of the problem in dealing with the puppet masters.
the OVERWHELMING majority of immigrants who arrived on Ellis Island from the Old World were poor — but never thought about criminal behavior , hmmm why not?!
They had sponsors, went through health screenings and needed jobs in order to stay.
So was Ronald Reagan’s shooter, John Warnock Hinkley, Jr.,… just outside the same Hilton Hotel venue. He also came from a wealthy Colorado family. We didn’t know RDS mental illness was a thing back then. He was inspired by Hollyweird Wokeness adoration.
I noticed the media kept their seats, as if they were confident that the shooter wasn’t there for them.
hatred originates in the heart, destroys the soul — has nothing to do with material wealth.
see Cain, Caiaphas, Booth, Lenin, 9/11 hijackers, SPLC …
There has been an ongoing effort to make all of us pick sides based on color, ethnicity, income, faith, and anything else. The commies need us tribalized.
It’s a grievance society. They are glorified because of their grievances. The more grievances, the more “value” they have.
They’ve been force fed that words are violence and and an egregious sin yet actual violence is justified and celebrated.
Add that he went into education and a 5 second search for atrocities committed by teachers yields a plethora of results.
And they are teaching the future leaders of our nation.
I still haven’t forgiven them for all the kids they put on the streets to protest ICE during school hours. I wonder how much “education” kids got during that time.
I saw on X the amount he contribited to Kamala’s campaign was 25.00 ( Last of the big spenders )😃
How did Cole travel from Torrance, CA to DC? Where did he get his weapons and how did he get them into the hotel? Who are his contacts in CA and in DC?
He was a registered guest at the hotel. He got the weapons to his room in his luggage.
How did he get the weapons from Cali to DC?
Maybe he drove
Or, he picked them up at his sister’s house
Definitely a possibility.
It’s easy if you have an inside source!
Or if you drive.
It is not unlawful to travel with firearms in checked luggage.
Why didnt the hotel check all the occupants luggage seeing that PDJT was going to bere?
It’s a large hotel in a major city. People constantly checking in and out. Shooter may have checked in days before.
Hotel simply the wrong place for this event because every guest’s room couldn’t be secured.
Because they’re conflicted.
let’s ask that Crooks guy, ohhh wait
Unconfirmed, but they reported that his sister lived in DC and has a journalism degree.
The media will twist it.
Fact remains that this one man is at risk because we conservatives are the target.
A sleeping giant is watching.
This is what i keep coming back to also… After butler, after kirk… If they are so ideologically comfie doing this to trump, they definitely dont have any qualms bringing it upon us all.
And you know, i would like to live a little longer.
Eventually this will have to be stopped by something much more than a few ss agents.
This will not be stopped by anything other than righteous anger and *civic activity* by the general MAGA populace. Each in his own way.
Patrick Henry your common sense family, friends and neighbors,…. tell’em, “Hell’s Coming to Breakfast!” – from The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Then tell’em it’s about Rawhide time now,… so listen for former CSA corporal trail drive ramrod, Rowdy ‘Eastwood’ Yates to yell to his Marxist Merrikka-hatin Dim cowherd,.. driver cowboys”… “Head’em Up,… Move’em Out!” (straight to the nearest Commie Country border)
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’ Though they’re disapprovin’, Keep them (Damn & Dumb Dim) dogies movin’- Rawhide!
…”don’t try to understand’em, Just ride and throw and brand’em,…Soon we’ll be living high and wide,….
Rolllin, Rollin, Rollin
Move ’em on, head ’em up,Head ’em up, move ’em on
Move ’em on, head ’em up
Rawhide!
Rawhide!”
(Rawhide TV Show theme song sung very well by Hollywood’s top TV/Movie theme crooner, Mr. Frankie Laine)
Here:
Rawhide! This mid 1960s weekly Western TV Show also put Clint Eastwood’s performance firmly on the road to his tremendously top successful career as an Actor, Writer, Singer Director and Producer, one of a very few Hollywood’s best.
Mayor Clint Eastwood also served successfully as the mayor of Carmel, CA. Wish he could be CA’s new Gov now,… he’d show left luving Arnnnald how it’s done Right.
I met Clint Eastwood playing golf with Willie Nelson at the PGA Houston Shell Open in our Dresser Sponsor’s rest stop libations/food tent just off the 10th hole green,… a really great, quit spoken and humble but witty and very likeable man, in about 1981.
Then I followed the pair around the course, Wille was non-stop cut up fun and LOL. (Clint was a outstanding accurate low handicap golfer.)
His best career performance (imho),… was his debating Barack Hussein O all alone to an empty Bammy stage chair on stage at a RNC Convention,… in 2012?).
Clint brought the house down with his lighthearted but bitterly biting wit and comedic humorous undertones to non-stop crowd LOL and wild cheering, live on national TV networks.
He remained non-pulsed throughout with his low toned smiling quite delivery with just his method of presenting unanswered Questions to a non present/non-entity,… the Silver tongued “I Won” smartazzed man in the room, the worst POS Marxist, Muzzy Prezzy evah, Oh Bam Ah. A Brilliant performance.
Thanks for that, Mr. Eastwood,… You’ve shown the Hollywood Leftist ‘Woksters’ Big Club members just how and why it’s truly done correctly with your marvelous and now beloved career,… and your constant publicly stated beliefs in a better vision for America and its citizens.
Remember that Eric Fleming was the top billed star of Rawhide for seven seasons. Then he drowned and Eastwood became trail boss in season 8 which was the last season.
Everyone remembers Eastwood but Fleming is forgotten.
Yes. Clint Eastwood/Rowdy Yates was the #2. Have always been puzzled why Eric Fleming was forgotten.
Very sad, ‘cuz Eric Fleming (‘Gil Favor’ was the lead actor/’Trail Boss’ who bellowed, “Head ’em up, move ’em out“) was on his way to super-stardom (handsome, rugged, ‘Marlboro Man’ quality)
drowned in South America while filming a scene in a river for a movie (name of movie?)
You nailed it, MB. That’s the way I see it too. Conservative Americans will become the target.
Will? Have.
Actually, this is the target. And we all are at risk. Not just one man.
Of course the fake media will not be addressing his race, which is obviously black.
Expect the fake media to deep six this story as it doesn’t fit their agenda.
If the picture posted above is his family it looks like he has a white mother and a black dad.
Just like Bath-house Barry Soetoro: his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham was white, and his biological father Frank Marshall Davis was black.
Never a more apropos occasion for Obama comment, “If I had a son…”
THANK YOU! for saying everything you just said.
Regardless, he is black.
5 gets you 10 that mommie is an AWFL.
A 31 year old in 2026 would have been 12-14 in 2008.
He won’t be visiting the Obamboozler
monstrositypresidential library anytime soon.What? You don’t like his library being designed and somewhat built to resemble a giant concrete African Termite mound? Mom always said water can’t rise higher than its source. Mom was so right with this dude.
These kids are like the Hitler Youth.
And, of course this guy is currently running for political office as a democrat….
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Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin
This brewery in Wisconsin is gushing over the assassination attempt.
Cont reading thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2048231196773974528.html
Disgusting. @FBI should come knocking on this degenerate’s door ASAP!
Instant karma would be the business losing their liquor license.
He must have missed the Bud Lite debacle,… some biz guy, huh?
Liquor is a nice fuel.
He taught at a tutering school in a strip mall. Looks like a “Learing Center”….
National emergency.
The VP and Sec of War Dept should Not be at same events as President Trump much less Speaker Johnson.
The media is playing the victim card. Disgusting.
As soon as mayor Bow Wow showed up on the screen I turned it off. I always thought that Trump should not have attended this charade. Everyone in that audience hates him. But his ego won’t let him not be the center of attention. That’s why he’s so pumped to have it again.
I really like what Trump is doing for the country but wish he would just shut up occasionally. How many times has he said we won in Iran. How many times has he said we have a deal? How many times has he said the Strait is open. He’s starting to look foolish. If he doesn’t get fuel and grocery prices down before the mid terms, we are toast. Everyday people don’t really dwell on or care about what’s going on in the Mid East. They are focused on paying their bills, affording fuel and groceries. Trump’s ego may just be his downfall. I hope I’m wrong.
You are wrong.
You are entirely wrong and a simple-minded worry wart
Your concerns have been duly noted.
“I hope I’m wrong.”
You are wrong.
I’ll bet Donald’s prepared Diner Roast speech to his Fake News audience would have been one for the ages,… just like he is now. He’d come out as the Unscathed Winner again, much to their raging TDS curses and hissing. I bet he would twisted the verbal knife he stabbed them with.
There’s somebody who got a degree and was a teacher and who just threw it all away. With the non-stop hateful rhetoric on the left he probably thought he’d be lauded as some kind of a hero.
And though I haven’t read them I understand the comments from the lunatic left are exactly what you’d expect.
agree
These people must not have done many word problems.
They certainly do not thing things out to the END.
Looks like Luigi’s GoFundMe will have some competition now.
Like a Cal Tech Nikita
UPDATE: COLE ALLEN’s SISTER AVRIANA ALLEN (SHE/HER)
Cole Allen’s Sister Avriana Allen Developed Voter Guides for CalMatters and Holds Elite Journalism Credentials Avriana F. Allen, 27, of Washington, D.C., is the sister of Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old Torrance, California teacher identified by authorities as the suspect in the April 25, 2026, shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Public records confirm the sibling relationship through shared mother Kathleen A. Allen and prior family address in Torrance.
Family records link: https://truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/px8u98r99n92rr48u894n
https://x.com/petersantilli/status/2048248014364360724?s=42
Is Avriana an accomplice
Probably a coffee klatch sister. You know, “drink the wine and discuss the assassination”.
Allen looks non-white racial background to me
Biracial, judging by family picture.
Some interesting Google trends on this guy. Just before the shooting. A few months before and in Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/live/x3qekKE8WOY?si=1sCOW_T8SUYmQtK7
Live stream at shooters house now
School children will be singing songs about him before the school year is over. There will be protest/folk songs about him soon.
Trying to figure out if calmatters is a left wing outfit. Sketchy evidence indicates it might be. One of their donors is lisa pritzger, cousin of jay pritzger, governor of ILLinois. Further research is needed.
These programs are run by Merrick Garland’s daughter
Funded by Democrat school districts and NGOs.
My thoughts exactly.
Lots of $ and press for the prop 5o dem gerrymandering recently passed. Yep definitely cpusa- launched in 2015 and didn’t like the negative vibes expressed by candidate Trump another CAl, uh huh, “non partisan “” nonprofit newsroom
I’m preparing myself for tomorrow when I’m sure I’ll overhear random strangers talking with each other and saying things like “Too bad they missed again.”
It’s always difficult to maintain composure.
I overhear people at my church crashing on Trump when they think they’re not being heard by others. I get furious but I haven’t butted in… yet.
Find another church?
I would.
I did.
What are you waiting for? The other shoe to drop? They’re saying these things at CHURCH?? Past time to butt in. I recommend a kind smile and pleasant sarcasm with a foundation of truth.
Tell’em,… “Sounds like you’re ready for Don Lemon’s Marxist Satanic Cult to come busting in this supposed church now.
To bad,… enjoy, but I wont be here then, I leaving for a real Christian church who’s congregation truly has Christ and his teachings in their hearts, not more Woke Violence,… Oh, and BTW, I wont be missing you or this excuse of a hypocritical church. Ta Ta, Toots!”
Imagine what they say about you when your not there.
They will oscillate between that and “Drumpf faked it for the ballroom publicity!”
By “will” I mean they already are.
Sounds like a perfect recruit for see👀a. Highly educated low profile wealthy family?
I’m sure I’m just grasping at straws..
A highly educated affirmative action teacher with low intelligence. Did he think he was going to commit murder and just head back home?
Yup
He was just reacting and doing; not thinking. Critical Thinking isn’t taught in education anymore, especially to teachers in teacher colleges.
Who knew….. a masters in computer science can still get you into Hotel Florence Colorado.
Professional student? Took ol joes advice and Lear’ing to program ?
I cannot help but imagine how much worse this could have been.
Praising God that it wasn’t.
We need to know what this guy knows. Maybe he’s just a nut, maybe not.
This is where we’re at!
This place should be razed to the ground by patriot vigilantes, who should then brag about it in a swimming pool of beer.
Most cases of arson are for insurance.
It appears they have locations in IL, MN and WI. Just in case anyone wants to visit.
Look at the products they sell:
https://www.minocquabrewingcompany.com/
“Progressive beer”.
Spit.
Unreal how many people are brainwashed.
Torrance…
Hmmm.
Torrance.
/PVE kid
Waiting to see the false flag………. you know it’s coming.
Just a thought, there was a lot of tense anticipation being expressed online prior to the event about what President Trump was going to say, how he was going to say it, perhaps a declaration on Iran, or a revelation about ongoing high level prosecutions. Maybe this monster had a cohort and the goal of the assassination attempt was to stop him from saying what he was going to say, or revealing what he was going to reveal.
I was hoping he was going to rip the fake news a new one, and was looking forward to seeing him doing that. I guess we’ll have to wait a little longer.
Shades of Andrew Breitbart???
The guests behaving badly in a somber situation:
Selfies…check
Grab the champagne and wine…check.
Interestingly, this appears to be a common take, I just watched the BBC interviewing one of their own, who was also in attendance, and he echoed this exact commentary almost verbatim to what Kari is stating….“I just showed my ticket from a distance & they let me pass through, they didn’t even ask for my ID”
Turned on CTH very late, and dang!
How long was it, a week or more “correspondents” were planning to give President Trump a NOT WELCOME kind of grandstanding.? Oh and that kind of attitude “never” attracts a nut job who wants to join in.
Most likely all will write their diatribes about what a SHOCK it was to be in a place where someone pulled a trigger on a gun. Sigh. Getting tired of wondering where the grown ups are.
Ban TDS mental illness, not guns.
Suspicious cat meme initiated:
Bizarre…
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Vince Tagliavia
@ReadyF4Any
Somebody tell me how an account called @HenryMa79561893, posts one thing in 2023– The name of the person detained at the White House Correspondents Dinner?
The sole post reads, “Cole Allen”. It was posted at 6:07 on 12/21/2023 and the account was “connected via web” with no location.
Cont…
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(2)
https://x.com/ReadyF4Any/status/2048256847577247916
ummmm … could be other cole allens … I reckon
prolly plenny
sounds like a shoe or eyeglasses brand
Hope this perp is enjoyed his 15 minutes of Fame (an Andy Warhol saying). He will probably die from sniffing the carpet.
Had to look up “Ashkenazi”.
Avriana Allen lives in Washington, D.C., where she works as a Junior Tooling and Support Engineer at the Pew Research Center (hired since September 2025). She previously worked as a Full Stack Web Developer at CalMatters, a FAR left-leaning California nonprofit, where she built interactive “voter guides” for the 2021 Recall, 2022 General, and 2024 Presidential elections. She is a 2021 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism (double major in Journalism + Statistics). Her roles at CalMatters and Pew have not been in traditional reporting or editing positions.
Her LinkedIn profile has been deleted; the deletion was first noticed and posted at approximately 05:00:52 GMT on April 26, after the April 25 shooting. No exact minutes-after-shooting timing is available.
some folks just find that racism comes to ’em all natural an’ sheeeeeeeeitttttttt
gnomesayin’ ?
These losers are fed a diet of pure bullshit by the Democrat Left and are taught to hate & harm their perceived enemies in the false believe it will somehow improve their own lives
Just like Muslim children are taught to hate Jews
This is NOT a coincidence
Same Playbook
Different cult.
“Just like Muslim children are taught to hate Jews” ,,,,
And Iranian, Hezbollah, Hamas & Houthis children are taught “Death to America” or “Death to the Great Satan (America)”
Also, people tend to forget that we are the primary target of Iran, not Israel. They are only the “Little Satan” in their eyes.
All of the SS agents missed their target!?
Thats for sure! This perp was outgunned 12:1 yet he hits his target center mass (hit his protective ballistic vest), & he gets detained without a single connection on his person? Hopefully this will/can be fully explained, perhaps the background on the target wasn’t clean, possibly circular firing squad dynamic promoting cross fire, where not taking a shot was the correct action?! We can only hope.
Are these multiple federal felony crimes sufficient for execution?
Don’t think so, we’re not getting a newly reinstated Firing Squad any time soon.
From this angle, it looks like JD was extracted first and the President, doing what he is supposed to do, sheltered under the table which was protected by bullet-proof armor in the front.
Anticipate deranged Leftists calling PDJT a coward for hiding under the table.
“doing what he is supposed to do, sheltered under the table which was protected by bullet-proof armor in the front.”
100%
The SHOOTER’S SISTER
https://x.com/SpenceRogers/status/2048236300386324603?s=20
I think the sister is involved…. because she lives in the area.
So obvious… Jeanine Pirro can’t stand being next to Muriel Bowser.
The Judge is the consummate pro!
The conspiracy is to create these lunatics. These lunatics act, but they also create chaos and confusion both offensive and defensive. When highly competent killers make their attempt, there will be clouds already in place. Motives and actors all unknown.
The media, the primary actors in this are very pleased with their progress so far. You cannot hate them enough.