Secret Service agent hit by buckshot from Trump attacker: Pirro

Cole Allen, 31, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the U.S. president

Published May 03, 2026  •  2 minute read

This image released as part of the US Government's Memorandum in Support of Pretrial Detention filed on April 29, 2026 shows a photo the defendant Cole Allen took of himself in a mirror at approximately 8:03pm ET while in his hotel room at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2026, according to the memorandum. Photo by U.S. Attorney for the District of Colombia /AFP via Getty Images

New ballistics evidence showed the man who stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had shot a Secret Service agent during an alleged attempted assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.

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Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Pirro said evidence showed “definitively” that a buckshot from accused gunman Cole Allen’s Mossberg pump action shotgun hit the agent’s bulletproof vest at the event held at the Washington Hilton last weekend.

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She said the pellet from Allen’s gun was “intertwined with the fibre of the vest of the Secret Service officer. It was definitively his bullet … He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way.”

The Secret Service agent was shot but uninjured.

Allen, who has been charged with attempting to assassinate Trump, has been in custody since the night of the shooting.

The 31-year-old was injured during the attack but was not shot.

It was previously unclear whose bullet hit the agent, though Pirro told CNN that surveillance video showed Allen shooting at the agent, and the agent had said he was shot by the accused.

Allen has also been charged with the discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

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It’s unclear if the new ballistic evidence would result in additional charges.

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