Suspected gunman at Washington press dinner identified as 31-year-old Californian
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The man arrested at the event attended by President Trump has been named in US media as Cole Tomas Allen from California.
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The 31-year-old suspect is from Torrance in the Los Angeles region, California.
After he was detained by security agents inside the Washington Hilton hotel he told law enforcement officials he wanted to shoot officials in the Trump administration, two sources told CBS, the BBC's US news partner.
In Sunday's interview with NBC's Meet the Press, acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche said the motive of the suspected shooter was still under investigation, but that "preliminary" findings suggested he was targeting administration officials, "likely" including President Donald Trump.
Blanche said investigators were now looking at reports that the alleged gunman had assembled the weapon in the hotel, stressing that he "didn't get very far".
"He barely broke the perimeter," Blanche said, adding that the suspect likely travelled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago, and then to Washington DC.
Police: Correspondents' dinner suspect charged checkpoint, had multiple weaponsCiting its sources, CBS also said that at least five to eight gunshots were fired during the incident. CCTV footage posted by Trump shows a person rushing past security officers, who then turn and chase him.
At an earlier news conference, police said that security officials and the suspect exchanged fire, without saying how many shots were fired.
Washington interim police chief Jeffery Carroll said the suspect was not struck by gunfire but was taken to hospital for evaluation.
The suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel where the correspondents' dinner was taking place, Carroll said, adding that he was "armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives".
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