Correspondents' dinner suspect indicted, faces four felony charges

Correspondents’ dinner suspect indicted, faces four felony charges

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The suspect in the April 25 attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has been formally indicted with four felony charges.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, has been charged by a federal grand jury in a three-page indictment with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump, assaulting a federal agent with a deadly weapon, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with the intent to commit a felony and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

He was previously charged by criminal complaint with three of the charges. The assault charge is new, but Judge Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, stated immediately after the attack that the charge was imminent.

Allen has been in federal custody since he was arrested after the attack. He will appear before Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, for an arraignment Monday morning.