{"id":19613,"date":"2026-04-26T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cs-graduate-teacher-game-developer-all-about-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-cole-allen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:24:01","slug":"cs-graduate-teacher-game-developer-all-about-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-cole-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cs-graduate-teacher-game-developer-all-about-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-cole-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"CS graduate, teacher, game developer; All about the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect who was arrested in the White House Correspondents’ shooting on Saturday, is a software developer and teacher, according to social media sites and his online profiles.<\/p>\n

Officials say that the 31-year-old is a resident of Torrance, California, the coastal South Bay town where the Correspondents’ Dinner also took place.<\/p>\n

According to the chief of the District of Columbia police department, Cole was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel where the event was being held.<\/p>\n

A Facebook profile showed that Cole was “teacher of the month” in December 2024 at C2 Education’s Torrance office. The service is known for providing a nationwide private test preparation and tutoring for students who are applying for college.<\/p>\n

The suspect’s LinkedIn profile said that he was a mechanical engineer and a computer scientist by Degree, ​an independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.”<\/p>\n

He did his bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from the California In California Institute of Technology in 2017, and a master’s degree in computer science from ‌California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025. The California Institute has confirmed that a person by the same name graduated in 2017.<\/p>\n

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In 2019, he created and released a skill-based game on Steam and registered the domain name “Bohrdom”. It is described as ‘loosely based on a Chemistry model’ that is ‘loosely based on reality’.<\/p>\n

While he was an undergraduate student, he was also a member of the school’s Christian fellowship and the Nerf club. In his graduation picture, he holds a picture of himself with a stuffed rabbit.<\/p>\n

Allen previously also worked as a mechanical engineer for UK Controls in South Pasadena and was a teaching assistant at Caltech. In 2016, he competed in a robotics competition at the school.<\/p>\n

A month before Donald Trump won the elections in 2024, Allen had donated $25 to the political action committee Act Blue, a fund for the democrat party in the US, the Los Angeles Times reported. It was his only political donation on the FEC website in the past decade.<\/p>\n

He is also registered to vote with no party preference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect who was arrested in the White House Correspondents’ shooting on Saturday, is a software developer and teacher, according to social media sites and his online profiles. Officials say that the 31-year-old is a resident of Torrance, California, the coastal South Bay town where the Correspondents’ Dinner also took place. According…<\/p>\n

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