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Investigators say the 31-year-old California man wanted to kill as many high-level officials as possible.
Cole Allen, the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, was charged with trying to assassinate President Trump.
Two days after allegedly attempting to charge into the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a gun on Saturday night, Cole Allen was in a federal courtroom Monday facing formal Department of Justice charges of the attempted assassination of a president. Matt Gutman reports.
US Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh ordered Allen detained while the case moves forward. Sharbaugh scheduled another hearing over Allen's continued detention for Thursday.
Cole Allen was charged Monday in federal court with three counts including attempt to assassinate the president.
The man accused of opening fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was charged with three counts in his first court appearance, including attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. Cole Tomas Allen also faces charges of interstate transportation of weapons and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime.
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