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Cole Tomas Allen, shooting suspect, was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel hosting the WHC dinner. He charged a Secret Service checkpoint, shot one officer whose bulletproof vest saved him. He was pinned down by the Secret Service. He had multiple weapons, including a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives. Currently faces two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, facing up to 15 years in prison.
Some notable points:
- 31 years old, resident of Torrance.
- CalTech grad with undergrad (2017) and a Master’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from CSU-Dominguez Hills.
- Donated to Kamala Harris campaign in 2024.
- Registered to vote in California, no party preference.
- Said he was working on a “top down shooter” combat game set in outer space.
- Listed as a member of a Christian fellowship group.
- Worked at C2 Education, a company that did test prep services.
- Terrorism charges have not been ruled out.
- He lives in a community with lots of retired LAPD, and one neighbor told the LA Times that he felt Allen was “on the spectrum.”
- Supposedly there was a substantial law enforcement response at Allen’s home in the recent past.
- He took the train from LA to DC via Chicago.
- He doesn’t have a criminal record and was not on law enforcement’s radar.
- Same hotel where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan in 1981.
- Suspect was allegedly targeting multiple Trump administration officials.
Allegedly, Allen sent an anti-Trump, anti-Christian manifesto to family members prior to the shooting. Allen referred to himself as a Friendly Federal Assassin. Authorities were alerted to the manifest by his brother.
This might spur the WH ballroom to completion. There was no security at the Hilton to get into the lobby and only a single pass was needed to get into the ballroom. There were security teams on the immediate exterior of the ballroom, but not around the hotel itself. There were no security scanners at Hilton’s entrances. The former British ambassador, Kim Darroch, said there was “just one security thing you have to get past” and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said it was a “failure of even the most basic security protocols…demands an immediate investigation.”
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Why the Left finds moral justification in murder and mayhem…
Opinion: The moral monstrosity of the New York Times podcast
Article is by Jonathan Turley, professor at George Washington University Law School. Not a conservative, nowhere close.
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I found this on RCP this morning–really twisted moral justifications for committing crimes. and last week I was in the UK where now shoplifting under 200 quid i sno longer a crime. Retailers are having to lock everything down. I guess the moral relativism many warned us of a decade ago is upon us.
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