Overview
- Following Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, President Trump, the First Lady, and senior officials were evacuated, and a Secret Service agent survived a gunshot wound.
- Suspect Cole Tomas Allen was arrested at the Washington Hilton and, on Monday, federal prosecutors charged him with attempting to assassinate the President along with related weapons offenses.
- Court filings say Allen carried a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol and expressed intent to target administration officials, with a pre-trial hearing set for May 11.
- BrightPath in Cincinnati fired preschool teacher Corrine Baum after her TikTok appeared to lament that Trump was not harmed, and local reports had placed her at its Bridgetown center the day before.
- Separately, a Wisconsin high school teacher was put on leave over a post referencing presidential assassins, signaling schools are moving quickly to police staff comments about political violence.