Agent hit by buckshot from gun of man charged in dinner attack – prosecutor

From left, acting US attorney general Todd Blanche, US attorney Jeanine Pirro and FBI director Kash Patel (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill US President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent, according to the federal prosecutor overseeing the investigation.

Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April 25, but she went beyond that on Sunday in saying a shot from one of Cole Tomas Allen’s weapons hit the officer’s bullet-resistant vest.