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4/26/2026, 11:14:30 PM
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Okay, we've got new reporting today on the shooting incident at the White House correspondents dinner last night.
Sources are telling ABC News that early evidence suggests the suspect's plan was a mass shooting and that the intended targets were Trump administration officials.
Sources say the 31-year-old suspect shared a message with family that while dinner guests were not his targets, he would still go through most everyone there to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary.
White House press secretary Caroline Levit posted that the night was quote hijacked by a depraved crazy person who sought to assassinate the president and kill as many top Trump administration officials as possible.
as possible. I was inside the ballroom last night when it happened. We were just minutes into the dinner.
I was sitting near the front of the stage when I heard banging then yelling, "Get on the ground."
I got on I got on the ground.
ground under the table as fast as I could as did other colleagues.
Some ducked under chairs. Uh there was panic, there was confusion.
Then law enforcement rushed into the ballroom.
I mean, this was a room packed with top officials.
Several members of the presidential line of succession were in there.
The president, the vice president, the speaker of the house.
Some agents were jumping over chairs to get to the people they protect.
Some carrying them out. Speaker Johnson seen sprinting out with his security detail.
And then when we were finally able to leave the ballroom, a group of us rushed here to the White House for the president's late night briefing.
The president's late night briefing. The president says he wants this dinner rescheduled and held again soon, but whether that's possible, that's still unclear.
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