{"id":72640,"date":"2026-04-25T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/person-in-custody-after-trump-evacuated-in-shooting-incident-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:57:51","slug":"person-in-custody-after-trump-evacuated-in-shooting-incident-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/person-in-custody-after-trump-evacuated-in-shooting-incident-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in custody after Trump evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Event ended suddenly with loud gunshots and immediate commotion, and the US president and first lady were unharmed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/26\/donald-trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner-after-loud-bangs-heard-live\">Suspected shooter apprehended after Donald Trump evacuated from White House correspondents\u2019 dinner \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald and Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner on Saturday evening after the event was interrupted by loud gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect was in custody, the FBI said, after the annual black tie dinner honoring the White House press corps in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton was suddenly interrupted by confusion and chaos. Journalists ducked under tables as authorities rushed the president and members of his cabinet out of the room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/donald-melania-trump-white-houe-correspondents-dinner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event ended suddenly with loud gunshots and immediate commotion, and the US president and first lady were unharmed Suspected shooter apprehended after Donald Trump evacuated from White House correspondents\u2019 dinner \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald and Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner on &#8230; <a title=\"Person in custody after Trump evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/person-in-custody-after-trump-evacuated-in-shooting-incident-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Person in custody after Trump evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}