{"id":6881,"date":"2026-04-26T14:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:34:19","slug":"white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-cole-allen-seen-on-local-news-segment-from-2017-touting-his-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=6881","title":{"rendered":"White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen seen on local news segment from 2017 touting his invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 2017 local TV news segment featuring a man identified as the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting suspect has resurfaced online in the wake of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, from ABC7 Los Angeles (KABC), shows a young Cole Allen \u2014 described as a Caltech student at the time \u2014 demonstrating a prototype wheelchair emergency brake at a tech conference focused on helping seniors.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cole Allen seen in a 2017 interview with local television news. <span class=\"credit\">KABC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Suspected White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner gunman Cole Allen speaks to local news about his wheelchair brake invention. <span class=\"credit\">KABC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe wheelchair brakes tend to lock the wheels, but don\u2019t lock the chair to the ground. But with this device, that will prevent the chair from skidding at all,\u201d Allen said in the segment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ WATCH: Cole Allen in his own words\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The California computer scientist, 31, accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner isn\u2019t  just any would-be killer \u2014 he is an elite-trained engineer from Caltech, where students with perfect SAT scores gain admission.\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iU1J4I1wJc\">pic.twitter.com\/iU1J4I1wJc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani\/status\/2048352789076549737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 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