{"id":181799,"date":"2026-04-26T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=181799"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:04:47","slug":"developing-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=181799","title":{"rendered":"Developing: White House correspondents’ dinner shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cole Allen lays on his belly with his arms behind his back after the shooting. (Donald Trump\/Truth Social)<\/p><\/div>\n

Cole Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, opened fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel. This was where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held. President Donald Trump and the others are safe, but the dinner was cancelled for the night. Trump said that he “fought like hell” to resume the dinner, but indicated that it would be rescheduled. One of Allen’s activities involved developing games, one of them was a first shooter game. This is a developing story.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The man accused of opening fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as Cole Allen, 31, a computer scientist from Torrance, California who went from designing first-person shooter games to becoming an alleged shooter himself.<\/p>\n

According to his LinkedIn profile and online records, Allen’s life and career trace an accomplished path as a computer scientist, engineer and independent game developer, even building a shooter role-playing game called “First Law.”<\/p>\n

In September 2013, according to his online profile, he enrolled in the highly competitive California Institute of Technology, known as CalTech, to pursue a BS in mechanical engineering, graduating in 2017. CalTech confirmed to Fox News Digital that a student named Cole Allen graduated from the school in 2017.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2014, he wrote that he landed another competitive spot as a summer undergraduate research student fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he said he contributed to astrophysics research.<\/p>\n

That summer, his profile says, he created “First Law,” a physics-based role-playing shooter game based on realistic two-dimensional space combat. At CalTech, he also built offensive and defensive robotic systems, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

He later made “Bohrdom,” a complex 2-D physics-based video game that he described as a “combination of a racing game with a bullet hell as experienced by self-propelled pinballs,” released on the popular Steam gaming platform, according to his profile.<\/p>\n

Beginning in March 2020, his LinkedIn profile says, he joined C2 Education, a tutoring company, enrolling at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2022 to pursue an MS in computer science, graduating in May 2025. That school also confirmed that a person by the same name graduated with a master’s degree that year.<\/p>\n

A Dec. 30, 2024 Facebook post from C2 Education congratulated “Cole Allen of C2 Education Torrence on being honored as December teacher of the month.” A photo matching that of Allen was attached to the post.<\/p>\n

According to Federal Election Commission records, Allen donated $25 to Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/b><\/p>\n

D’Abrosca, P., & Nomani, A. Q. (2026, April 25). Who is Cole Allen? California man named as suspect in White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. Fox News<\/i>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cole Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, opened fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel. This was where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held. President Donald Trump and the others are safe, but the dinner was cancelled for the night. Trump said that he “fought like hell” to resume the dinner, but indicated that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,469,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-donald-trump","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-Lif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}