Pirro says bullet that hit Secret Service agent at WHCA dinner was 'definitively' fired by gunman
Pirro says bullet that hit Secret Service agent at WHCA dinner was ‘definitively’ fired by gunman
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, affirmed Sunday that the bullet that hit a Secret Service agent at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was fired by the alleged gunman.
Pirro told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” that prosecutors have video of the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, shooting at the Secret Service officer, and the officer himself confirmed that he was shot.
The U.S. attorney also noted that prosecutors “can establish” that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the alleged gunman’s firearm was “intertwined with the fiber” of the vest that the Secret Service officer was wearing.
“It is definitely his bullet, he hit at that Secret Service agent, he had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the........
