President Donald Trump and several administration officials were evacuated by the Secret Service after shots were fired at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 25. Attendees described what sounded like four gunshots were heard coming from the lobby, and armed Secret Service agents rushed in to control the scene and remove the president.
Devlin Barrett, a reporter for The New York Times covering the DOJ and FBI, reported that the gunman was stopped at a security perimeter and was taken into custody, “according to people familiar with the investigation,” though CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reported that the shooter was killed by law enforcement. He said that he had been near the men’s room and saw the shooter. A Secret Service spokesman later announced that one person was in custody and that the “condition of those involved is not yet known.”
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