Pirro says Trump dinner shooting suspect ‘definitively’ shot Secret Service agent
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro stated that the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting definitively fired the shot that struck a Secret Service agent's vest. Investigators linked buckshot from the suspect's shotgun to fibers from the agent's vest, confirming the origin of the bullet. Despite speculation about friendly fire, officials including Pirro and Secret Service Director Sean Curran maintain the suspect was the sole shooter.
- ▪Jeanine Pirro confirmed the suspect's buckshot was found entangled in the Secret Service agent's vest.
- ▪Video evidence shows the suspect, Cole Allen, shooting at the agent before the agent returned fire.
- ▪Secret Service Director Sean Curran stated the agent fired five rounds, all of which missed Allen.
- ▪President Donald Trump asserted that the agent was not wounded by friendly fire.
- ▪The suspect was apprehended before entering the dinner after falling at a security checkpoint.
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The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting “definitively” fired the bullet that hit a Secret Service agent’s vest during the incident, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said. “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,” Pirro said. “It is definitively his bullet.” Recommended Stories After ‘missteps’ in Minneapolis, CBP’s Rodney Scott resets partnership with ICE 57 pounds of marijuana worth $220,000 found in Maryland man and woman’s suitcase at Dulles Airport Remains found in Tampa Bay identified as second missing USF student Pirro’s comments on CNN’s State of the Union come as reports…
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