Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old tutor and software developer from Torrance, California, has been identified as the suspect in the White House shooting incident on Saturday.
Allen allegedly opened fire at the Washington DC event, forcing the evacuation of attendees, including US President Donald Trump.
He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and later completed a master's degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Allen worked as a part-time teacher with C2 Education and also worked as an independent game developer, creating a video game on the Steam platform focused on molecular chemistry.
He also served as a teaching assistant at Caltech and participated in a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2014.
Allen was attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel when the shooting took place and was reportedly armed with a shotgun.
