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White House correspondents' dinner shooting: Timeline of chaos
Moments after the head of the White House Correspondents Association welcomed President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to its annual dinner to celebrate journalism on Saturday evening, gunshots sounded outside the doors of the Washington Hilton Hotel's International Ballroom.

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Suspect in White House Correspondents' Association dinner shooting identified
Man charged with attempted assassination of Trump in White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
Suspect Cole Tomas Allen charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump
The man accused of opening fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was charged with three counts in his first court appearance, including attempting to assassinate President Do...

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Suspect in White House correspondents' dinner shooting charged with attempting to assassinate Trump
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Live Updates: Defendant in Press Gala Attack Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Trump
Mr. Allen, who did not enter a plea, came to Washington with a pump-action shotgun, a handgun and three knives with the intent to carry out a political assassination, a federal prosecutor told the jud...

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Who is Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged attacker at the White House correspondents’ dinner
Read the email the accused shooter sent to his family before the alleged Trump assassination attempt

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What we know about shooting at White House correspondents' dinner

The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, will appear in court on Monday. He was tackled by agents just short of a staircase which leads down to a ballroom where the annual White House correspondents' dinner attended by hundreds of journalists and public figures was getting under way.