When gunshots were heard from inside the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner on Saturday night, guests weren\u2019t sure what was happening or if they were in danger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It soon emerged that suspected gunman Cole Tomas Allen had been arrested by security officials. Allen was allegedly armed with knives, a shotgun and a handgun at the time of arrest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sitting at his table in the lavish ballroom as the events unfolded was the Guardian\u2019s Washington DC bureau chief David Smith. <\/strong>He speaks to Nour Haydar<\/strong> about what is known about the alleged gunman\u2019s motivations, the panic when the shots were fired and the questions being asked about the event\u2019s security protocols<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When gunshots were heard from inside the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner on Saturday night, guests weren\u2019t sure what was happening or if they were in danger. It soon emerged that suspected gunman Cole Tomas Allen had been arrested by security officials. Allen was allegedly armed with knives, a shotgun and a handgun at the time … 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-72689","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\/72689","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=72689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}