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May 3, 2026

Secret Service agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents' dinner attack, prosecutor says
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Secret Service agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents' dinner attack, prosecutor says

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April 25, but she went beyond that Sunday in saying a shot from one of Cole Tomas Allen's weapons hit the officer's bullet-resistant vest. WATCH: White House holds briefing as accused Correspondents' Dinner attacker faces attempted assassination charge "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," she told CNN's "State of the Union." "It is definitively his bullet." Allen, who remains behind bars for now pending his trial, was injured during the attack but was not shot. The officer survived. On Thursday, Pirro posted a video on social media showing the moment that authorities say a man with guns

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