Goa, April 26 -- Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old Torrance, California resident arrested for the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, boasts an impressive resume. He graduated with a mechanical engineering bachelor's from Caltech in 2017 and a computer science master's from Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2025. His LinkedIn highlights him as a mechanical engineer, game developer, and teacher.

Diverse Career PathAllen tutored high schoolers at C2 Education, earning "Teacher of the Month" in 2024 at their Torrance office. He developed games like a Steam molecular chemistry title and a planned space top-down shooter. Earlier roles included mechanical engineer at IJK Controls, Caltech teaching assistant, and 2014 NASA Jet Propulsion La...