New evidence found against media gala shooter
AFP | Washington
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Investigators have found clear evidence that the alleged gunman who at‑ tempted to storm a Washing‑ ton media gala attended by US President Donald Trump ac‑ tually shot a Secret Service of‑ ficer, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.
Questions had lingered over whose weapon had struck the officer in his protective vest on the night of the April 25 gala, after at least one Secret Service agent also opened fire.
Jeanine Pirro, the US prose‑ cutor in Washington, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that investigators could now definitely say it was gunfire from the man charged with the attack, Cole Allen.
“We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buck‑ shot from the defendant’s Moss‑ berg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” Pirro said.
Allen, who was tackled and arrested by security forces al‑ most immediately after charging through a security checkpoint with multiple weapons, has not entered a plea.
“It is definitively his bullet, he hit at that Secret Service agent. He was -- had every in‑ tention to kill him and anyone who got in his way -- on his way -- to the killing the presi‑ dent of the United States,” Pirro added.
Investigators have released some security camera footage of Allen walking around the Wash‑ ington hotel, as well as one angle of the incident -- which took place on the floor above the gala.
In that footage, the man iden‑ tified as Allen sprints through a security checkpoint and raises a firearm towards a Secret Service officer, who fires several times at the assailant as he runs off screen.
There is not an apparent muz‑ zle flash from the shotgun dur‑ ing the short clip, which does not show the area where Allen was detained.
Pirro told CNN that more video would be made public at a fu‑ ture date, including of the events that occur after Allen runs off frame.
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