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Weijia Jiang

Weijia Jiang

President, White House Correspondents' Association

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Federal prosecution of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter

Force in Play

Leading association response; rescheduling dinner

A Secret Service officer's ballistic vest stopped a shotgun round at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. Two days later, federal prosecutors charged the shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, with attempting to assassinate the President. Allen had traveled three days by Amtrak from Los Angeles, checked into the hotel as a guest, and walked a long gun straight through a magnetometer before opening fire near the entrance to the ballroom where Donald Trump was expected to speak.

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