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EX500rider

(12,692 posts)
Sun May 3, 2026, 06:23 PM Sunday

Secret Service agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents' dinner attack, prosecutor says

Source: PBS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April 25, but she went beyond that Sunday in saying a shot from one of Cole Tomas Allen's weapons hit the officer's bullet-resistant vest.

"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," she told CNN's "State of the Union." "It is definitively his bullet."

Allen, who remains behind bars for now pending his trial, was injured during the attack but was not shot. The officer survived.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/secret-service-agent-hit-by-buckshot-from-the-gun-of-man-charged-in-correspondents-dinner-attack-prosecutor-says



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Secret Service agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents' dinner attack, prosecutor says (Original Post) EX500rider Sunday OP
It's Magic! purr-rat beauty Sunday #1
FWIW: Physics doesn't work like that OC375 Sunday #4
Yeah. The video (doesn't) show all that. Buckshot hit ONE spot from maybe 3 feet? underpants Sunday #7
Buckshot is not a bullet, gab13by13 Sunday #2
Exactly. Even those who know virtually nothing about munitions should recognize that. hlthe2b Sunday #6
Agreed and gee, one whole pellet. ratchiweenie Sunday #11
I'll believe it, when they prove it! bluestarone Sunday #3
A buckshot shell fires 9 pellets at once NickB79 Sunday #5
Thanks. One pellet? Nothing on his legs? One pellet hit and the drywall behind him is okay? underpants Sunday #9
A suspicious new story pulled from a magicians black top hat..... magicarpet Sunday #8
If there are 9 pellets in one buckshot shell, at that range i want them to produce bluestarone Sunday #10
00 Buckshot melm00se Sunday #12
Before or after the gun was confiscated? cstanleytech Sunday #13
Do we even know if they checked to see if the gun was fired? what kind of shotgun shells did he have? 00 buck? ChicagoTeamster Sunday #14
Sure Jan orangecrush Sunday #15
Judge Boxwine sez what? area51 Sunday #16
The most important part of this story is dixiegrrrrl Yesterday #17
I'd bet we've heard 100,000 lies out of the felon, Leavitt, and cabinet. pat_k Yesterday #18
Isn't This Calling A Suspect "Guilty" Pre-trial? ColoringFool Yesterday #19
yeah, okay, cool story bro. nt Javaman Yesterday #20
If it was staged, like many believe, why would the Secret Service have captured him alive? MichMan 13 hrs ago #21
Video released today Delphinus 12 hrs ago #22

purr-rat beauty

(1,376 posts)
1. It's Magic!
Sun May 3, 2026, 06:32 PM
Sunday

The shot would have knocked the keystone cop back to the wall at such close range

A shotgun is really hard to fire sideways while running, where's the kickback? muzzle flash?

It was friendly fire and this cover up is criminal

OC375

(1,092 posts)
4. FWIW: Physics doesn't work like that
Sun May 3, 2026, 06:49 PM
Sunday

Equal and opposite reaction. People only fly through the air from shotguns in movies. I can’t speak to flash as I didn’t see a video of it firing.

underpants

(196,995 posts)
7. Yeah. The video (doesn't) show all that. Buckshot hit ONE spot from maybe 3 feet?
Sun May 3, 2026, 07:10 PM
Sunday

If he did fire the shotgun 🙄 with buckshot he’d have been ripped up. Everywhere the vest wasn’t.
One pellet hit? One?

The DC cop clearly shot the agent.

hlthe2b

(114,419 posts)
6. Exactly. Even those who know virtually nothing about munitions should recognize that.
Sun May 3, 2026, 06:50 PM
Sunday

A shotgun is not a handgun is not a basic rifle is not an automated assault rifle... A shotgun scatters pellet at distance but at close contact would have blown the agent across the room and loaded up that vest with shot pellets.

Friendly fire attempting to be masked in the most clumsy and unbelievable way, I'd say.... Not to mention coming from this woman makes it even more unbelievable.

NickB79

(20,397 posts)
5. A buckshot shell fires 9 pellets at once
Sun May 3, 2026, 06:50 PM
Sunday

At 10-15', all 9 pellets are still so closely packed they'd all go in a 2" circle. Speaking from personal experience from years of shotgun use.

But only ONE pellet was recovered?

underpants

(196,995 posts)
9. Thanks. One pellet? Nothing on his legs? One pellet hit and the drywall behind him is okay?
Sun May 3, 2026, 07:16 PM
Sunday

Thanks for the clarity. Not a big gun Guy but I’ve been around a few.

magicarpet

(19,198 posts)
8. A suspicious new story pulled from a magicians black top hat.....
Sun May 3, 2026, 07:12 PM
Sunday

(Not a gun expert here,... just try ing to rationalize the validity of this story from these known liars and prevaricators.)

... of the space in question at the Washington DC - Hilton Hotel - where another alledge assassination attempt of trDUMP transpired.

Yes ?

trDUMP's USDOJ - Acting Atty. Gen.: Todd Blanche + Judge Jean Winebox Pirro and FBI Director: KKKegsbreath drinking buddy,... KKKa$h Patel - none of which can ever be trusted to tell the truth.

Now contend a single shotgun pellet from a shot gun fired by the perp hit the Secret Service agent on his bulletproof vest. This is alleged where the "evidence proves" the phantom ballistic piece now alledgedly originated from.

Can the Inspector General from the USDOJ and the Inspector General from the FBI forensically confirm the contention that a shotgun pellet hit the Secret Service agent in his bulletproof vest. And where are the remaining shotgun pellets they say was fired from the fired shotgun embedded at ? There must be 30 or 40 individual shotgun pellets missing from the allegedly fired shotgun shell. Where might those be located to corroborate this brand new contention ?

bluestarone

(22,396 posts)
10. If there are 9 pellets in one buckshot shell, at that range i want them to produce
Sun May 3, 2026, 07:21 PM
Sunday

the other 8. I'm believing NONE of this.

melm00se

(5,168 posts)
12. 00 Buckshot
Sun May 3, 2026, 07:35 PM
Sunday

is 9 x 0.33" pellets.

The shot pattern (for cylinder choke) expands radially at ~2" per yard traveled.

There is no way to determine with certainty that a shotgun pellet came from a specific shotgun as there are no lands and groves in a shotgun barrel to leave an identifying mark on the pellet (not that is an absolute link to any firearm...this ain't TV).


The best that they can claim and claim to show

1. The alleged shooter was armed with a shotgun.
2. The shotgun was loaded with [insert specific round here].
3. No other officer was armed with a shotgun.
4. There was one spent cartridge ejected or still in the chamber.

One question that I have:

There is a video showing the alleged gunman entering a doorway with no long gun visible. A folding shotgun by Mossberg, when folded, is ~30" in length which is not easily concealable, so where did it come from?

ChicagoTeamster

(1,174 posts)
14. Do we even know if they checked to see if the gun was fired? what kind of shotgun shells did he have? 00 buck?
Sun May 3, 2026, 09:36 PM
Sunday

size 5 shot? copper deer slugs?

dixiegrrrrl

(60,169 posts)
17. The most important part of this story is
Mon May 4, 2026, 01:29 AM
Yesterday

It is greeted with the same amount of very wide skepticism that any trump related information provides.And for very good reason. The one thing about him that most people do agree with is......he has a long and well deserved reputation for zero veracity.

pat_k

(13,778 posts)
18. I'd bet we've heard 100,000 lies out of the felon, Leavitt, and cabinet.
Mon May 4, 2026, 04:02 AM
Yesterday

... since he took office.

First term WaPo documented over 30,000 provable trump lies, and I don't think that counted multiple repetitions of the same lie as more than one lie.

In the face of that, you would have to be crazy to believe ANYTHING that came from ANY PERSON the felon or a corrupt minion was responsible for hiring.

MichMan

(17,320 posts)
21. If it was staged, like many believe, why would the Secret Service have captured him alive?
Mon May 4, 2026, 07:38 PM
13 hrs ago

Seems like they would have shot and killed him, so he couldn't expose the plot at his trial.

Delphinus

(12,538 posts)
22. Video released today
Mon May 4, 2026, 08:12 PM
12 hrs ago

show it was the officer with the police on the back of his vest that shot the officer - the guy charged just ran through, never shooting. Stop with the lies.

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