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Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Suspect Taken Off Suicide Watch as Grand Jury Nears

Prosecutors plan a grand jury review this week based on new ballistics.

Overview

  • Allen’s lawyers disclosed Sunday that the D.C. jail lifted his suicide status and they withdrew their request to end the precaution as moot.
  • The judge kept Monday’s hearing on his jail conditions on the calendar, citing grave concerns about the way he was confined, according to a court report.
  • U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said ballistics tie a buckshot pellet embedded in a Secret Service officer’s vest to Allen’s Mossberg shotgun.
  • Pirro said prosecutors will present the case to a grand jury this week and signaled they are preparing additional charges after reviewing digital evidence of event tracking.
  • Allen remains jailed on attempted-assassination and firearms charges after he allegedly rushed a hotel checkpoint with a shotgun, a handgun and knives, and an officer was hit but protected by body armor.