Pirro says Trump dinner shooting suspect ‘definitively’ shot Secret Service agent

Published May 3, 2026 10:45am ET | Updated May 3, 2026 10:45am ET



The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting “definitively” fired the bullet that hit a Secret Service agent’s vest during the incident, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said.

“We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” Pirro said. “It is definitively his bullet.”

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