
A 31-year-old Californian part-time teacher arrived at one of Washington's most high-profile annual events with a shotgun, a handgun, several knives, and a 1,052-word plan to kill the President of the United States.
Cole Tomas Allen sent a manifesto to his family moments before he exchanged gunfire with Secret Service agents at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Within that document lay a detail that has since consumed federal investigators: among the full roster of Trump administration officials Allen allegedly marked for death, one name was deliberately absent.