USA y. Man Accused of Firing on White House Correspondents Dinner IDed

The man accused of opening fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as Cole Allen, a 31-year-old computer scientist from Torrance, California.

According to online profiles and records, Allen had a background in engineering and game development, including building a shooter role-playing game titled “First Law.”

Records indicate he attended the California Institute of Technology, where he studied mechanical engineering and graduated in 2017. The institution confirmed that an individual with that name completed a degree that year, Fox News reported.

In the summer of 2014, Cole Allen said he was selected as a summer undergraduate research fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on astrophysics-related research.