Trump Unharmed After Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Suspect in Custody

April 25th, 2026

Via: Daily Mail:

The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as a California teacher.

A source told the Daily Mail that Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California near LA is the alleged shooter who opened fire at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.

The educator from the Los Angeles area was quickly apprehended by law enforcement moments after breaching a security checkpoint. He has been charged with firearms and assault charges.

Police revealed the suspect had a number of weapons on him including a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives.

President Trump shared a stunning image shortly after showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the carpet. Law enforcement confirmed he was not struck by gunfire while being stopped.

In photos taken moments after Cole was pinned by agents, officers can be seen restraining him as others moved in to secure the area.

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Cole Thomas Allen Was a Caltech Graduate

Via: Wired:

A WIRED review of public databases shows a seemingly minimal online presence associated with Allen’s name. According to his LinkedIn profile, he graduated from Caltech in 2017 with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and from California State University Dominguez Hills in 2025 with a master’s in computer science. An apparent photo of Allen that appears on Caltech’s website identifies him as a member of the school’s Mechanical Engineering 72 class, described by the school as a “two-term engineering design lab” for building robots and autonomous vehicles. His name is also listed in a 2025 Dominguez Hills graduation program. A search in a public facial recognition database returns only two images, both apparently of him as an undergraduate.

According to the alleged shooter’s LinkedIn profile, he has been employed part-time since March 2020 at C2 Education, a private company that helps students prepare for the SAT and ACT exams. In December 2024, C2 Education said in posts on LinkedIn and Facebook that he was the company’s “December Teacher of the Month.”

Since 2018, the suspected shooter has self-identified on his LinkedIn profile as a “self-employed” indie game developer. He appears to have released an “atomic fighting game” called Bohrdom on Steam in 2018. The game was advertised using accounts on YouTube and X that appeared to have little to no following. The caption for a trailer of the game describes it as a “non-violent, skill-based, asymmetrical fighting game loosely based on a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.”

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Cole Allen: C2 Education Teacher of the Month December 2024

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Via: Facebook:

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Cole Allen: NASA Intern

Via: Latestly:

Further details from his alleged LinkedIn profile indicate that Allen interned at NASA in 2014, where he reportedly worked on AI models for planet mapping. The profile also states that he graduated as an engineer from California Institute of Technology.

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Single Post on Twitter Account from 2023: Cole Allen

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Cole Allen Had Worked for IJK Controls, Acquired by General Atomics

General Atomics is a long established black world contractor. Although Allen’s departure from IJK Controls appears to have occurred before General Atomics acquired the firm, Allen is visible in an image included in a 2020 press release, GA-ASI Acquires IJK Controls:

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a global leader in Remotely Piloted Aircraft, announced today that it has acquired a majority of the assets of IJK Controls, including facilities and all Intellectual Property. The corresponding workforce will join GA-ASI. IJK Controls is a Pasadena, California-based provider of innovative solutions for stabilization, pointing and tracking of cameras, sensors and antennas. The IJK workforce and assets will be integrated into GA-ASI to support the organization’s growth initiatives focused on the development and fielding of advanced sensors and payloads for GA-ASI’s portfolio of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

“We are excited to welcome the IJK Controls team to the GA-ASI family,” said Linden Blue, CEO, GA-ASI. “Leveraging the team’s extensive expertise in the rapidly developing field of stabilized gimbals for airborne applications, GA-ASI will expand its product portfolio and enable new mission capabilities for our customers.”

The addition of IJK to GA-ASI adds critical capabilities in the development of Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) and Radio Frequency (RF) gimbaled and turret-based systems for advanced airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), communications and weapons.

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