The suspected White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooter donated money to ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising arm, according to reports.
The suspect, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, meant for the money to go to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s (D) presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
The newspaper said officials have not shared a possible motive behind the shooting that happened at the Washington Hilton hotel where President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were in attendance for the event:
In October 2024, Allen donated $25 to ActBlue, a political action committee that raises funds for Democrats, according to the Federal Election Commission. The money was earmarked for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. It was his only political donation listed on the FEC website in the past decade.
Allen, who is registered to vote with no party preference, graduated from CalTech in 2017 with a degree in mechanical engineering. While at CalTech, he was a member of the school’s Christian fellowship and the nerf club, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The Sunday Times also reported Allen had donated $25 to ActBlue.
“The authorities have not publicly released a motive. If confirmed to have been an attempt on the president’s life, the incident will have been the third such in two years,” the article read.
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