Shots fired at White House correspondents’ dinner

On Saturday night, shots were fired as an armed suspect charged security at the White House correspondents’ dinner. President Trump and others were quickly evacuated, and a Secret Service agent was saved by his bulletproof vest after being shot at close range. The suspect has been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31 year-old man from California. At a White House press conference held immediately after the incident, Donald Trump described the suspect as a ‘very sick person’, thanked the Secret Service, and praised the organisers of the dinner for ‘such a beautiful evening’. This morning, Sky’s US correspondent James Matthews, who was present in the ballroom, said that security had seemed ‘lax’, and he had only needed his ticket to get into the Hilton hotel. Matthews gave his account to Trevor Phillips, describing how the attendees had taken shelter behind their tables.

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