Agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents' dinner attack, prosecutor says

"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer. It is definitively his bullet."

"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."

Authorities confirmed that a Secret Service agent was hit by buckshot from Cole Tomas Allen's shotgun during an attack at a Washington hotel. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro stated that the pellet was found intertwined with the agent's bullet-resistant vest, confirming it was from Allen's weapon. Allen, who was injured but not shot, faces charges including attempted assassination of the president. His attorneys have filed to withdraw a motion regarding his suicide watch status.

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