{"id":2598199,"date":"2026-05-03T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pirro-says-trump-dinner-shooting-suspect-definitively-shot-secret-service-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:13:48","slug":"pirro-says-trump-dinner-shooting-suspect-definitively-shot-secret-service-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pirro-says-trump-dinner-shooting-suspect-definitively-shot-secret-service-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirro says Trump dinner shooting suspect &#8216;definitively&#8217; shot Secret Service agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpirro-says-trump-dinner-shooting-suspect-definitively-shot-secret-service-agent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2598199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said court evidence shows the suspect, Cole Allen, definitively fired the shot that struck a Secret Service agent\u2019s vest during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner shooting. she supported this claim by saying a pellet from Allen\u2019s shotgun buckshot became intertwined with the vest\u2019s fiber.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks come amid public speculation-based in part on media accounts of court documents-that the agent may have been hit by \u201cfriendly fire.\u201d Pirro pointed to video she said shows Allen shooting at the agent and added that the agent would say he was shot at and then returned fire. Secret Service Director Sean Curran also <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >denied friendly fire<\/a>, saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bail-agent-arrested-for-killing-man-with-no-warrants-in-front-of-cops\/\" title=\"Bail ... Arrested For Killing Man With No Warrants In Front Of Cops\">agent fired<\/a> five rounds that missed Allen while Allen was falling. President Donald Trump similarly said \u201cit wasn\u2019t us\u201d who shot the agent.<\/p>\n<p>the shooting on April 25 resulted in no deaths; Allen was arrested before entering the dinner, and he appeared to fall after hitting a security device while security moved in.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>The suspect in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house-correspondents-association\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1617\">White House Correspondents\u2019 Association<\/a> dinner shooting \u201cdefinitively\u201d fired the bullet that hit a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/secret-service\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1478\">Secret Service<\/a> agent\u2019s vest during the incident, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeanine-pirro\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3802\">Jeanine Pirro<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant\u2019s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,\u201d Pirro said. \u201cIt is definitively his bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4550145\/after-missteps-minneapolis-cbps-rodney-scott-resets-partnership-ice\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>After \u2018missteps\u2019 in Minneapolis, CBP\u2019s Rodney Scott resets partnership with ICE<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4552224\/57-pounds-marijuana-maryland-suitcase-dulles-airport\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>57 pounds of marijuana worth $220,000 found in Maryland man and woman\u2019s suitcase at Dulles Airport<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4552032\/tampa-bay-remains-identified-second-missing-usf-student\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Remains found in Tampa Bay identified as second missing USF student<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Pirro\u2019s comments on CNN\u2019s <em>State of the Union<\/em> come as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4550751\/secret-service-director-deny-agent-friendly-fire\/\">reports speculated<\/a> the Secret Service agent was hit by friendly fire. Multiple outlets <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2pmk0r3pjo\">reported<\/a> that court documents in the case do not unequivocally say the suspect, Cole Allen, was the one who hit the agent, fueling the public\u2019s speculation. But U.S. officials have all maintained it was Allen who fired the shot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Secret Service\u00a0Director <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4550751\/secret-service-director-deny-agent-friendly-fire\/\">Sean Curran\u00a0said on Thursday<\/a> that the agent who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-agent-fired-five-shots-at-cole-during-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" title=\"Secret Service ... five shots at Cole during Trump assassination attempt\">hit fired<\/a> five rounds from his gun and that each missed Allen while he was falling to the ground. Pirro also told CNN that \u201cthere\u2019s video of the defendant shooting at the Secret Service agent\u201d and that the Secret Service agent \u201cwill tell you himself that he was shot at and then he returned the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump also told reporters on Thursday that \u201cit wasn\u2019t us\u201d who shot the agent, and the president has repeatedly thanked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">law enforcement<\/a> at the event for their response to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hit at that Secret Service agent,\u201d Pirro said of Allen. \u201cHe had every intention to kill him, and anyone who got in his way, on his way to killing the president of the United States. This was a premeditated violent act calculated to take down the president and anyone who was in the line of fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4550751\/secret-service-director-deny-agent-friendly-fire\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4550751\">SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR DENIES AGENT WAS WOUNDED BY FRIENDLY FIRE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one was killed in the shooting in the security area outside the dinner on April 25. Law enforcement apprehended the suspect and arrested him before he was able to enter the dinner. Allen appeared to hit his knee on a security magnetometer, causing him to fall to the ground as security rushed to apprehend him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very dangerous situation, and but for law enforcement and their quick reaction, this thing could have been much worse,\u201d Pirro said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanine Pirro says the suspect \u201cdefinitively\u201d fired the bullet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2598200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26117730630337.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5894,74802,3634],"class_list":["post-2598199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-politics","tag-secret-service-2","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26117730630337.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598203,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598199\/revisions\/2598203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}