Everything we know about Cole Allen, the D.C. correspondents dinner shooter

The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner was derailed Saturday night after an armed man, Cole Allen, rushed through a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement.

The suspected gunman was apprehended at the scene and is expected to be arraigned on Monday. One law enforcement agent was shot but not seriously injured, and all Trump administration officials and lawmakers were safely evacuated. No injuries were reported among the attendees.

After the incident, President Donald Trump — who was attending his first White House Correspondents’ Dinner as president — requested that the event be rescheduled. While the dinner was initially set to proceed, it was canceled because law enforcement deemed the venue an active crime scene.

Here’s what we know about Allen:

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the suspected shooter was likely targeting administration officials during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“It does appear the suspect was targeting members of the administration,” Blanche said, noting that authorities are still “looking to try to understand a motive from our preliminary investigation.”

Blanche said it is unclear whether the shooter was targeting “particular members” of the administration, only that “we do understand that that was his goal and his target.”

Blanche said Allen, of Torrance, California, traveled by train from “Los Angeles to Chicago, then Chicago to D.C.”

Allen was booked at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was being held, and Blanche said he checked in on Friday.

Blanche said the suspect is not cooperating with authorities, and officials have obtained most of the information about him “from other means.”

“We’ve already started talking to folks who knew him, we’ve already started going through the evidence that we collected,” he said.

Allen was a teacher at C2 Education, a tutoring, test prep and college admissions counseling provider, according to his LinkedIn profile.

C2, in a statement to CNBC, said they “were shocked to hear the news of the horrifying incident that transpired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”

“We are cooperating fully with law enforcement to assist them in their investigation. Violence of any kind is never the answer,” the company said.

His LinkedIn profile shows he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and from California State…