{"id":72814,"date":"2026-04-29T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/prosecutors-seek-detention-of-alleged-white-house-dinner-shooter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:58:21","slug":"prosecutors-seek-detention-of-alleged-white-house-dinner-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/prosecutors-seek-detention-of-alleged-white-house-dinner-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors seek detention of alleged White House dinner shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys, citing new evidence including selfies, filed a motion to detain Cole Tomas Allen until his trial  <\/p>\n<ul>\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 email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federal prosecutors provided in a filing Wednesday the most detailed account to date of Cole Tomas Allen\u2019s alleged weeks-long plan to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who had joined more than 2,500 members of the Washington press corps for their annual White House correspondents\u2019 dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.291781\/gov.uscourts.dcd.291781.10.0.pdf\">motion<\/a>, aimed at keeping Allen detained and filed by the US attorney for DC, Jeanine Pirro, includes two selfies of the alleged shooter standing in front of a mirror in his hotel room in a black suit, a slight smirk crossing his face. He is kitted out with two firearms and multiple knives tucked into his belt. Prosecutors allege they are the same weapons that were confiscated from Allen after the attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/29\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooter-new-evidence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys, citing new evidence including selfies, filed a motion to detain Cole Tomas Allen until his trial Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Federal prosecutors provided in a filing Wednesday the most detailed account to date of Cole Tomas Allen\u2019s alleged weeks-long plan to kill Donald &#8230; <a title=\"Prosecutors seek detention of alleged White House dinner shooter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/prosecutors-seek-detention-of-alleged-white-house-dinner-shooter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prosecutors seek detention of alleged White House dinner shooter\">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-72814","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\/72814","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=72814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}