May 3, 2026, 3:18 p.m. ETU.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said that the bullet that struck a Secret Service agent in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was "definitely" from suspect Cole Tomas Allen's gun.“We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot, from the defendant’s Mossberg pump action shotgun, was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” Pirro said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on May 3 on "State of the Union."USA TODAY previously reported that evidence collected so far indicates the only Secret Service agent who actually fired their weapon at Allen was the one who was injured as he tried to prevent what prosecutors allege was an attempted assassination on President Donald Trump. The agent, who has not been identified, fired five times but did not hit the suspect.Initial court filings did not specifically allege that Allen shot the agent, though Trump and administration officials have claimed that he did in public comments."That is interesting and noteworthy because what it shows is the government does not yet have conclusive proof that the suspect did shoot the agent," Mark Lesko, a former U.S. attorney for the
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