Updated: Press dinner shooting in D.C.: What we know so far

A man fired gunshots during a press dinner at the White House. While President Trump and Vice-President Vance were rushed to safety, the alleged perpetrator was overpowered by security agents. One agent was wounded but is not in critical condition.

Three DW journalists who attended the event, Ines Pohl, Janelle Dumalaon and Misha Komadovsky, share their experience. DW also spoke to terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, asking him about security incidents involving the US president.

We also included an interview with Bruce Hoffman, a Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Hoffman is the author of “God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America.”

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Chapters:
0:00 Gunman opens fire at gala dinner attended by Trump
0:33 Report by David Shaw
1:03 Janelle Dumalaon’s eyewitness account
2:32 Ines Pohl reporting from outside the Washington Hilton hotel
3:07 Images of the alleged perpetrator
3:22 Trump: ‘They seem to think he’s a lone wolf’
4:14 Misha Komadovsky’s eyewitness account
5:46 ‘It was a mix of confusion and adrenaline’
7:30 The wounded agent’s injuries are not life-threatening
8:04 What is known about the gunman?
9:03 Trump: ‘Its a dangerous profession, but I’m here to do a job’
12:22 Interview Hans Jakob Schindler
13:17 ‘The security system actually worked’
14:04 ‘There has been an uptick of political violence’ in the US and in Europe
17:05 ‘The lone actor phenomenon is just about the hardest one to counter for security agencies’
18:37 Interview Bruce Hoffman
21:10 ‘We see a country that’s very divided, that’s very fractured, that has ready access to firearms, where many people have mental health issues’
23:03 ‘There’s rhetoric in the aftermath of these tragedies or near-tragedies that attempt to defuse the fervor that one sees in support of political violence’
24:39 Social media also fuel divisiveness, anger, hatred