Fourth charge filed against suspect in journalist dinner shooting
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Prosecutors have filed a fourth criminal charge against Cole Thomas Allen, the suspect in a shooting incident at a journalist dinner event. The new charge of assaulting a federal official with a deadly weapon was added to three existing charges Allen already faced when he appeared in court two days after the incident. Investigators discovered a projectile from Allen's weapon embedded in the vest of a Secret Service agent during their examination of evidence from the shooting. The case involves an attack that occurred during a press gathering, though the specific details of the original incident and the nature of the three previous charges were not disclosed.