At about 8:27 p.m., he accessed the video “WATCH LIVE: President Trump, first lady en route to White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” and watched Mr. Trump exiting his vehicle to attend the dinner in another video, the memorandum says.
At about 8:30 p.m., Allen’s prescheduled emails, containing a text file titled “Apology and Explanation,” were sent to members of his family. The message stated that he planned to target Trump administration officials, “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” according to a copy obtained by CBS News.
And right after that, prosecutors say, he rushed the screening checkpoint on the terrace level of the Washington Hilton with a raised shotgun.
A U.S. Secret Service officer “observed the defendant fire the shotgun in the direction of the stairs leading down to the ballroom,” the memo states.
The memorandum supplies the most detailed account of his movements leading up to the event, but questions remain about what happened when he appeared to run past security and shots were fired. Law enforcement sources told CBS News the final ballistics analysis is pending.
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