Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old Caltech graduate and former 'Teacher of the Month' named as the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, has left those who once knew him struggling to reconcile the man they remembered with the events of Saturday night. A former student described Allen in just three words — 'completely average guy' — and called the incident 'bizarre,' saying he had shown no signs of being capable of such actions, told reporters.
George Daghlian, who participated in the Caltech Christian Fellowship club alongside Allen, conveyed his shock to the Wall Street Journal. A former volleyball teammate, speaking anonymously to NBC News, recalled Allen as a 'borderline genius' and 'super stable,' adding: 'Other people study hard. He didn't have to study. It would just come to him. He was really, really smart.'
