Federal prosecutors say a Secret Service agent was struck by buckshot from the shotgun of the man charged in connection with an alleged attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The charges center on an alleged attempt to storm the event and kill President Donald Trump, according to the prosecutor overseeing the investigation, as reported by multiple outlets.
Both reports state that investigators have determined the projectile that injured the agent came from the suspect’s firearm. In each account, the weapon is described as a shotgun, and the substance that struck the agent is described as buckshot. The reports attribute the determination to the federal prosecutor handling the case.
The articles do not provide additional details about the timing of the attack, the extent of the agent’s injuries, or other circumstances beyond the claim that the buckshot originated from the charged suspect’s shotgun and hit a Secret Service agent at the correspondents’ dinner.
