Breakthrough regarding the attack at the gala in Washington. He hit a Secret Service agent

The head of the Washington prosecutor's office, Jeanine Pirro, said on Sunday that investigators had obtained evidence that Cole Allen shot a Secret Service agent during a journalist's gala on April 26. The man planned to assassinate the US president who was present there. So far, it has not been determined whose bullet hit the security guard.

Pirro revealed new evidence in the case of the would-be attacker during an interview with CNN on Sunday. She said that investigators determined that Allen fired a shot and hit the bulletproof vest of one of the president's bodyguards.

We can now determine that a particle of pellets from defendant's Mossberg shotgun became entangled in the fibers of the Secret Service officer's vest. It's definitely his missile,” Pirro said in an interview with CNN.

So far, the prosecutor's office and the FBI have avoided conclusively ruling on whether Allen actually shot the officer, and the available video materials did not confirm this. This led to speculation that the bullet that hit the bulletproof vest came from another Secret Service officer.

The new evidence could lead to new charges against Allen, who, according to the manifesto he left behind, intended to carry out an attack on President Donald Trump and his administration officials during the annual White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) gala. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn't rule it out on Sunday during an interview with NBC. Allen was charged on Monday with trying to kill the president of the United States.

The officer who was shot in the vest was taken to hospital, but released the next day; he was not seriously injured.

From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)

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