The White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner will be held on July 24, the organization said Tuesday, nearly three months after it was postponed due to a shooting.
The after a suspect broke into a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun near where the White House correspondents’ dinner was taking place on April 25, attended by United States President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Shooter pleads not guilty
O pleaded not guilty to all charges on May 11.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, did not speak in court as his attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
The charges include attempted assassination of the president, assault on a federal agent and illegal possession of firearms.
Prosecutors allege Allen fired a shotgun at a U.S. Secret Service agent and stormed a security checkpoint in a foiled attack on Trump and other members of his administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Allen was wearing an orange jumpsuit and was handcuffed at the waist during the brief hearing.
It was his first appearance in Washington federal court before the judge who will preside over the remainder of the case, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden.
The hearing came a week after another judge apologized to Allen for the treatment he received at a local Washington, D.C. jail, which included being placed on suicide precautions and isolated from other inmates.
Minute by minute of the attack
Here is the minute by minute, adjusted to Brasília time, of how the events occurred on the night of the attack.
- 21h45: CNN International reports that Trump was escorted off the stage by the Secret Service, while Vice President JD Vance and some members of Trump’s cabinet were also rushed out.
- 21h52: CNN International reports that Trump is safe, according to a source familiar with the situation.
- 22h00: CNN International carries reports that several US Secret Service agents shouted “shots fired” at the dinner, according to press pool reports. An agent announced over the radio that a shooter was in custody, the pool reported.
- 22h10: CNN Internacional reports that the suspicion of an armed man was what caused the evacuation of the office and the total closure of the place.
- 22h11: CNN International reports that a government official says the cabinet members attending the dinner are all fine.
- 10:15 p.m.: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who was present at the dinner, describes hearing “gunshots in the hallway right next to me” and seeing “a guy with a gun” as police officers escorted him to safety.
- 22h17: Trump posts on Truth Social that a “shooter” has been arrested. We reported that Trump wants to return to the site, but the Secret Service does not recommend the move, citing an administration official.
- 22h36: Trump claims that law enforcement authorities asked him to leave and that he is returning to the White House. He also says the White House Correspondents’ Dinner will be rescheduled.
- 22h39: CNN International reports that one person is in custody following the shooting, according to the US Secret Service.
- 23h04: CNN International reports that a US Secret Service agent was shot at the dinner, according to three people familiar with the matter.
- 23h33: Trump holds a press conference at the White House, where he says that “a man charged at a security checkpoint, armed with multiple weapons” at the Correspondents’ Dinner.
- 00h16: CNN International reports that the suspect has been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from California, according to two sources familiar with the case.
- 04h51: CNN International reports that the Secret Service officer who was shot has been released from the hospital, according to USSS Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi
