The gunman who crashed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April is now being charged with attempted terrorism.
US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s office announced Friday that a federal grand jury handed down a terrorism charge for 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen.
Allen was previously charged with attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, as he ran past the Secret Service checkpoint and traded fire with Secret Service agents stationed outside the annual media dinner at the Washington Hilton.
President Donald Trump was seated at the head table.
Federal prosecutors alleged that Allen ‘attempted to kill the President of the
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