🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING MAJOR UPDATE:
Full picture emerging from the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting...
-Suspect assembled a "long" weapon in a lightly monitored area near the terrace-level entrance, according to a volunteer witness
-The room had bar carts being stored and "no security" at the time
-Witness Helen Mabus said the gun "didn't look like a typical gun" and was assembled from a bag
-Gunman then rushed toward the stairs leading down to the ballroom
-Opened fire in multiple directions, witness estimates "at least 10 shots"
-A law enforcement officer was struck, hit in the vest, condition unclear
-One person in custody, Trump and Melania safe
Secret Service and Metro Police actively investigating
The fact that someone could assemble a long gun from a bag inside the venue, in a room with no security, before charging the ballroom is a massive security failure that's going to define every conversation tomorrow.
Source: CNN
🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: New video from inside the Washington Hilton ballroom shows attendees diving under tables in panic as loud bangs rang out during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Trump, Melania, and VP Vance were quickly evacuated by Secret Service.