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The keys to the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The president of the United States was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after an armed man tried to enter the room where the event was being held
From inside the room, where journalists, politicians and celebrities were dining, five shots were heard at the height of the first course. The area where the incident occurred, one floor above the event site, was immediately cordoned off. The outside of the hotel, where attendees were evacuated, was filled with police. , a 31-year-old Californian and, according to initial information, had stayed as a guest at the hotel.
It is the third attack that the president of the United States survives, after which a sniper fired up to eight times and one of those bullets grazed his right ear, and that time when an armed man was discovered on a golf course in Florida with plans to assassinate the then Republican candidate.
