US President Donald Trump described the attacker from the dinner for journalists as a troubled person whose family contacted the police shortly before the incident.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, American President Donald Trump said that the attacker who opened fire at a dinner for journalists at a hotel in Washington on Sunday night had written an anti-Christian manifesto. In the document, he also called for attacks on representatives of the Trump administration. He sent the manifesto to his family, who alerted the police a few minutes before the shooting. TASR informs about it according to AP and AFP agencies.
“The guy is sick. If you read his manifesto, you’ll see he hates Christians,” Trump said. “His sister or brother complained about it. You know, they even complained to the police. He was a very troubled person,” the US president explained.
Sagittarius and manifesto
The gunman who slipped through security at the dinner venue wrote a manifesto “making it clear he wanted to attack government officials” and sent the document to family members, who then turned it over to police minutes before the incident in Washington, the White House told CNN.
According to American media, the suspect in the shooting is 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen from California, who was armed with a shotgun, a pistol and knives. From his posts on social networks, it appears that he is an educated person and an amateur video game developer. Before he was pacified, he managed to shoot one member of the Secret Service, who was wearing a bulletproof vest. His life is out of danger.
Investigation and charges
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche reported that the shooter was targeting members of President Trump’s administration. He is not cooperating with the investigators after his arrest, and on Monday they will probably bring several charges against him.
