Witness Describes Chaos as Gunman Opens Fire at WHCD
A woman who witnessed the beginning of Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner described a horrifying scene to The Independent as guests, service workers, and other hotel guests streamed out of the Washington Hilton into the dark streets of Washington D.C. on a drizzly Saturday evening.
Flavienne, a server at the venue, described how she was pushing a service cart into an elevator with another female employee when a man dressed in a suit to blend in with attendees withdrew a long gun from his person and opened fire at least three times. She recounted the panic that ensued: "The lady was behind me, she was working with me. She [was trying to] push the cart [in the elevator]... The guy passed just close to her. Just like you pass like this -- and then he pulled out the gun, the long gun. He shot that gun immediately, like three shots."
A man with short brown curly hair, identified in a picture posted by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, was taken into custody by law enforcement. Security footage shows the suspect charging security at the WHCD as Trump praised the Secret Service.
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