Video shows moment Secret Service officer fired at correspondents’ dinner suspect

New surveillance-video analysis has sharpened the timeline of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack, showing a Secret Service officer firing at suspect Cole Tomas Allen as he rushed a checkpoint.

The Washington Post said footage from April 25 appears to capture the officer drawing and firing as Allen moved through the security area at the Washington Hilton. The report adds new detail to a case already under federal investigation.

The Justice Department has charged Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, with attempting to assassinate the president and with related firearms offenses. DOJ says Allen ran through a magnetometer holding a long gun, an officer wearing a ballistic vest was shot in the chest, and that officer returned fire multiple times.

The new reporting does not settle every question. Investigators have not yet publicly resolved whether Allen fired during the exact moment shown in the video, and the FBI says the investigation is ongoing. Prosecutors and investigators are still building the full forensic timeline of the attack.

The latest footage, along with earlier DOJ and FBI statements, makes the April 25 security breach at the correspondents’ dinner look more serious and more complex than the initial accounts suggested.