Overview
- Cole Allen’s lawyers disclosed Sunday he was taken off suicide status, and the judge kept a Monday hearing while citing “grave concerns” about his prior confinement.
- U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said prosecutors will take the case to a grand jury this week and signaled they are weighing additional charges.
- Pirro said forensic testing found a buckshot pellet from Allen’s Mossberg shotgun woven into a Secret Service agent’s vest fiber, which the government says confirms he fired on law enforcement.
- Investigators say Allen sprinted through a checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on April 25 during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner while carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and knives.
- Defense filings argue suicide precautions put Allen alone in a padded cell without a tablet or papers, required strip searches, and blocked private meetings, and a judge earlier ordered better access to counsel.