{"id":6836,"date":"2026-04-27T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:17:45","slug":"man-accused-of-firing-on-white-house-correspondents-dinner-ided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6836","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused of Firing on White House Correspondents Dinner IDed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cole Allen\u2019s life reads like the blueprint for a quiet success story: Caltech graduate, JPL research fellow, physics-obsessed game creator, and, more recently, an award-winning teacher pursuing an advanced degree in computer science. On paper, he was the kind of person parents point to when they tell their kids what hard work can achieve. His games, \u201cFirst Law\u201d and \u201cBohrdom,\u201d were intricate worlds of calculated chaos, built on the laws of motion and impact, where players navigated bullets, velocity, and survival in tightly controlled digital arenas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now investigators are combing through those same projects, his academic history, and his modest political donation, trying to understand what led a 31-year-old educator to allegedly charge a Secret Service checkpoint armed with multiple weapons. A bulletproof vest stopped one round; quick return fire stopped the rest. The question left hanging over Washington \u2014 and Torrance \u2014 is how a life so rigorously engineered could end in such violent, public rupture.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Allen\u2019s life reads like the blueprint for a quiet success story: Caltech graduate, JPL research fellow, physics-obsessed game creator, and, more recently, an award-winning teacher pursuing an advanced degree &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}