What We Know About Security at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Secret Service director Sean Curran said the detention of a suspect showed that a ’multi-layered protection' plan worked on April 25.
What We Know About Security at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Staff clean up after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, on April 25, 2026. Mark Schiefelbein/AP
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A suspect is in custody after an incident in which shots were fired outside the annual White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington on April 25, which was attended by President Donald Trump, but what do we know about the security procedures in place on the night?
The president and First Lady Melania Trump were evacuated from the dinner, which was taking place in the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, after a gunman breached security and shot a Secret Service agent.
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