Suspect of shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner to be formally charged in court today

The suspect of a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is due to appear in court today according to BBC. 

The suspect has been named by US media as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance, California.

US Attorney General Todd Blanche said “preliminary” findings suggest the suspect was targeting members of the Trump administration – and that Trump himself was a “likely” target.

Less than an hour after the incident, Trump said in a post on Truth Social, “the shooter has been apprehended”, and later posted the above photo.

Law enforcement told the BBC’s US partner CBS News yesterday that the suspect was being held at a Metropolitan Police Department station in north-west Washington DC, and would be transported later today to a detention facility in the south-east of the capital.

He is expected to be formally charged today with assault of a federal officer and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Further federal indictments will be coming later, Blanche said.