{"id":17975,"date":"2026-04-26T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:32:01","slug":"what-we-know-about-gunfire-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=17975","title":{"rendered":"What we know about gunfire at White House correspondents&#8217; dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"295\">US President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span> and First Lady <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Melania Trump<\/span><\/span> were evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner after gunshots were reported at the venue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"450\">The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">United States Secret Service<\/span><\/span> confirmed no injuries and said the suspect, identified as <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Cole Tomas Allen<\/span><\/span>, is in custody.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"641\">Chaos broke out when a man rushed security at the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Washington Hilton<\/span><\/span>, where the event was held. Reports say multiple shots were fired before security subdued the suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"809\">Trump later said the situation was \u201cshocking\u201d but under control, praising law enforcement and confirming a Secret Service agent survived thanks to a bulletproof vest.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"961\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The historic White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, a tradition since 1921, was briefly locked down and later postponed as authorities secured the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner after gunshots were reported at the venue. The United States Secret Service confirmed no injuries and said the suspect, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, is in custody. Chaos broke out when a man rushed security at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17977,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions\/17977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}