Washington gunman’s final hotel selfie before ‘rushing Trump’s security’

White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen appears to have taken a selfie before he stormed the event and ambushed the event’s security detail.

The suspect was wearing headphones and smiling softly in a mirror selfie, which appears to have been taken in a hotel room where the event was taking place.

The image, claimed to be taken 30 minutes before he rushed Secret Service agents in an apparent attempt to reach Trump, also features a gun and knives.

Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, is facing two firearm-related charges after opening fire near the room where Trump and several other high-profile cabinet members were dining on Saturday.

Police said Allen had been armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives, but Trump shared the motive that he was acting as a ‘lone wolf’.

‘They seem to think he’s a lone wolf, and I feel that too,’ Trump said.

In his manifesto sent to his family, who reported it to the police, he revealed he was hell-bent on killing Trump administration officials in order of importance, but didn’t include FBI director Kash Patel on that list.

‘Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,’ he wrote after apologising for anyone else he put in danger.

‘I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behaviour; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.’

Although he did open fire on a security guard, he never got anywhere near the dinner, and nobody was killed. 

Allen seems to have been a part-time indie developer and released at least one game on Steam in 2018, which has naturally garnered more attention now than it ever did when it came out.

The game is titled Bohrdom and is described as a ‘skill-based, non-violent asymmetrical fighting game loosely derived from a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.’

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