Correspondents’ dinner suspect charged checkpoint, had multiple weapons

US police say the armed suspect at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had multiple weapons on him when he attacked the security checkpoint.

Surveillance video released by Donald Trump shows the suspect running past metal detectors as security guards draw their guns.

Washington DC police chief Jeffery W Carroll said officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect and a US secret service officer was “hit in the vest”. It was stated that the person who was taken to hospital was “in good spirits”.

The suspect, whom police called the “lone gunman,” was not hit by gunfire but was also transported to a hospital for evaluation.

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