High-res surveillance footage released of suspect bolting through metal detector during Trump assassination attempt

Shooting suspect Cole Allen.

Federal prosecutors released a new, high-res version of the surveillance footage captured inside the Washington Hilton on Saturday night that shows the suspect in the Trump assassination attempt bolting through a security checkpoint carrying a shotgun as he attempted to storm the ballroom where the White House Correspondents' dinner was about to take place. 

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, posted the footage on X Thursday evening. The video was compiled with footage taken from multiple camera angles and shows the suspect, who authorities say is Cole Tomas Allen, on Friday and Saturday making rounds in various parts of the hotel. Pirro described the behavior as Allen "casing the area." 

Later in the video, footage captured from a camera position above the area where attendees had passed through metal detectors, showed Allen suddenly bolt through one of the metal detectors, pointing the shotgun directly at a Secret Service agent and apparently firing one shot. Almost simultaneously, the agent is seen pointing his gun and firing at Allen as he charges by. 

According to Secret Service Director Sean Curran, the bullet Allen fired struck the Secret Service agent who returned fire in the chest. “All the evidence that I’ve seen -- the suspect shot our officer, point-blank range, with a shotgun. Our officer, heroically, returned fire while being shot … in the chest,” Curran said during an appearance on Fox News.

“He was able to get off five shots,” Curran said, adding that the agent was falling to the ground as he shot at Allen, The New York Post reported. The agent survived unharmed as the bullet was stopped by the bulletproof vest he was wearing. Meanwhile, Allen was also outfitted in a tactical vest at the time of the attack, Curran said. 

The video shows numerous other agents and officers responding as Allen runs out of the frame. At that point, the suspect was subdued and restrained by authorities, who Curran said removed the tactical vest to search Allen for other weapons or explosives. 

A zoomed-in version of that video also shows a K-9 officer having a brief conversation with Allen near the security checkpoint mere moments before he burst back onto the scene with the shotgun in his hand.

Both Curran and Pirro said there's no chance the bullet that hit the Secret Service agent was the result of friendly fire, according to The New York Post. Below, watch a clip of Curran discussing the tense moments on Fox News.