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What we know about the suspected White House Correspondents' dinner shooter

NPR | By Steve Futterman
Published April 27, 2026 at 3:55 AM CDT

Cole Allen, the suspect in the shooting at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, is described as "very smart" by students he mentored in Southern California.

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