DC Gala Shooting Suspect Tracked Trump’s Movements, DOJ Says

The man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Washington hotel on Saturday followed the president’s movements in real-time using a website and live video feeds just before a shootout with security at the venue, according to new details disclosed by the US Justice Department.

The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, took a photo of himself in a mirror of his hotel room as he armed himself, shortly before he went downstairs to where Trump was attending a gala, DOJ said in a court filing. As he approached a checkpoint, Allen took off a long black coat that concealed a shotgun, “sprinted” through a metal detector and fired the weapon at least once toward stairs leading to the ballroom before he was restrained and taken into custody, the government said.