MS NOW-3 days after correspondents' dinner, FBI still unsure who shot officer outside ballroom

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The Secret Service officer was wearing a bulletproof vest, but sources say investigators haven’t found the fragment that pierced it — and can’t definitively say whether it came from the suspect.

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The FBI has not found the fragment that pierced a Secret Service officer’s bulletproof vest at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, leaving investigators unable to say for certain whether the armed attacker shot the officer or how he was injured, according to two people briefed on the probe.

Law enforcement agents on the scene Saturday believe Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect who breached the dinner’s final checkpoint, fired his shotgun and struck the officer with buckshot from his weapon, according to one of the people, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the ongoing probe. A check of Allen’s shotgun showed that he discharged a shell but did not reload, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters Monday.....

Here are other new details MS NOW has learned about the incident:

No officers or agents were stationed in the stairwell that Allen used to get to the main hotel floor and just steps from the checkpoint he breached. Investigators’ review of hotel video shows Allen reached the checkpoint, where magnetometers screened guests for weapons, by walking down the stairwell 10 floors down from his hotel room, one of the people said.

“He didn’t dilly dally once he got there,” one person who saw the footage said. “He just immediately went for the checkpoint.”

The Secret Service does not require agents in stairwells of this public hotel when they are outside the magnetometer-screened perimeter of the dinner event.

In its review, a Secret Service team estimated that Allen was running nine miles an hour, one person in the briefing said, and then stumbled somehow and fell a few yards from the checkpoint. That raises the question among law enforcement professionals of how a person moving that fast could have stopped and fired his weapon at an officer behind him.

After Allen fell, agents and officers jumped on top of him to tackle and subdue him, two people told MS NOW. But initially, law enforcement on the scene believed one of them had shot Allen because he was not immediately responsive, a law enforcement official said.

Allen’s mother and father are cooperating with FBI agents leading the investigation into the incident and Allen’s self-professed plans to kill Trump administration officials gathered at the dinner. Investigators have learned that Allen’s brother had growing concerns in recent weeks with an uptick in disturbing rhetoric from Allen, according to one of the people.

The Secret Service on Monday began a sweeping internal investigation to determine whether there were any security lapses or a need for hardening security protocols as a result of the breach. Known as a Mission Assurance Review, this investigation is run by the Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility and is often considered a way to learn lessons from a serious incident and improve security in the future.

The FBI declined to comment to MS NOW......

Blanche said investigators determined that the agent who was shot fired five rounds at the suspect, none of which hit him. But he said they could not be sure those were the only rounds fired by law enforcement officers.

“When you fire a bullet, it ends up somewhere,” he said. “Sometimes you find it and sometimes you don’t.”

[Blue Owl]

1. Not surprising when the head of the bureau is the drunk moron Kashyap Pramod Patel

And even more telling that the whole thing was staged in that tRump hasn’t fired his ass — apparently assassination attempts are nothing to worry about….

[malaise]

2. Friendly fire - that's the truth

Eff the kakistocracy

[LeftInTX]

3. They don't know how many rounds their own agents shot? Come on....

[Wounded Bear]

5. Given the competence they've been displaying lately...

do we know if he didn't shoot himself?

[DFW]

6. I believe that like I believe in the tooth fairy.

The guy who was hit in the vest took enough of a blow that he was knocked down. That wasn’t a “fragment.” That’s a slug. Not many weapons were fired. It would take less than 12 hours to determine which weapon that was. And don’t tell me a slug that got deeply enough into a kevlaer vest to knock its wearer backward “disappeared.” There’s no way it’s not in their possession—or at least, it WAS in their possession long enough for the Feds to determine who fired it. If that had been Cole Allen, it would have been on the Sunday news programs. It wasn’t on the Sunday shows. Ergo, it was fired by another Secret Service agent, and they are making sure as little as possible is said publicly. The bullet hasn’t disappeared, but they are trying to “make it so.”

[Midnight Writer]

7. I thought in officer-involved shootings, they checked the firearms of all the cops on the scene.

That way they know for sure who fired their guns.

Of course, the federal policy these days is to close ranks, hide evidence, and refuse to investigate.

[Beringia]

8. Unreal

[MichMan]

9. Witnesses tell investigators Secret Service agent shot by suspect

WASHINGTON – A federal review of witness and agent statements about last weekend’s shootout at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner is consistent with the suspected gunman being the one who shot a Secret Service agent, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

Evidence thus far indicates the only Secret Service agent who actually fired their weapon was the one who was injured as he tried to prevent what prosecutors say was an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump and other administration officials.

That agent, who has not been identified, fired five times while trying to stop suspect Cole Tomas Allen after he breached an initial security barrier at the event at the Washington Hilton hotel, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at an April 27 news briefing.

The weapons of all of the other Secret Service agents at the scene were checked, and were never fired, according to the law enforcement source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation that is being conducted by the FBI and Secret Service.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/witnesses-tell-investigators-secret-service-agent-shot-by-suspect/ar-AA21X80m?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=69f177e2d89f47b4a17d0cfa5f2b1160&ei=14