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The man who crashed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night and opened fire, injuring a Secret Service agent, will face at least two charges, the Justice Department has announced.
“The defendant will be arraigned on Monday in federal district court, but make no mistake, there will be many more charges based upon the information that we are learning in this very fluid situation,” US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said during a press conference.
Pirro said the suspect will face a count of using a firearm during a crime of violence, and a count relating to assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
Both the suspect and Secret Service agent were taken to hospital.
In a briefing at the White House, the President confirmed a Secret Service agent was shot, and said that he was “doing great.”
President Trump also said the suspect is from California, and that authorities were in the process of raiding his home.
Interim DC Chief of Police Jeff Carroll said the suspect was armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives. He added that the man appeared to be acting alone.
Carroll said the man may have been a guest at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place.
“We’ll go through video across the hotel to figure out how the gun got in, how it got down here,” he said.
In a statement posted to social media about the incident, Secret Service Director Sean Curran—who was present at Butler, Pennsylvania when a sniper attempted to kill President Trump—praised his agents and their response.
