What we know about White House dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen? | ABC NEWS

31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen remains in custody and is reportedly not cooperating with authorities after allegedly targeting senior members of the Trump administration at the White House correspondents’ dinner at the Washington Hilton.
US President Donald Trump says he was 'anti-Christian' but police maintain his motive is unknown.
Federal agents have searched his room at the hotel and his home in California.
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