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Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the\u00a0White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner\u00a0in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation.<\/p>\n

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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April 25, but she went beyond that Sunday in saying a shot from one of Cole Tomas Allen\u2019s weapons hit the officer\u2019s bullet-resistant vest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant\u2019s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,\u201d she told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cIt is definitively his bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen, who remains behind bars for now pending his trial, was injured during the attack but was not shot. The officer survived.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Pirro posted a\u00a0video on social media\u00a0showing the moment that authorities say a man with guns and knives attempted to storm the media gala. Questions have lingered about whose bullet struck the officer as the suspect ran through security with a long gun toward the ballroom packed with journalists, administration officials and others.<\/p>\n

A phone call to lawyers representing Allen went unanswered on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Allen has been charged with attempted assassination of the president, as well as two additional firearms counts, including discharging a weapon during a crime of violence. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of the assassination count alone.<\/p>\n

Allen, 31, is from Torrance, California. He worked as a part-time tutor for a test preparation company and is an amateur video game developer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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