The alleged would-be assassin at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner hid an arsenal of weapons underneath his long black coat, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday.
The suspect, Cole Allen, took a mirror selfie of himself while wearing a bag filled with ammunition, a shoulder holster, a sheathed knife, wires and plier cutters that were all consistent with the items later recovered during his arrest, according to the DOJ. He rushed the event’s screening checkpoint about 30 minutes after the photos were taken in his hotel room.