New Delhi, April 26 -- Cole Tomas Allen, the man suspected of firing shots outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where US President Donald Trump was holding the annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday, was reportedly "armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives."

Interim Washington, DC, police chief Jeffery Carroll was quoted by CNN as saying that the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner had several weapons as he "charged" a Secret Service checkpoint.

"He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives," Carroll reportedly said. Police added, "As he ran through that checkpoint, members of law enforcement from the United States Secret Service intercepted that individua...