The White House Correspondents’ Association has officially rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24 after a shooting outside the doors of the originally scheduled dinner cut the event short on April 25.
Weijia Jiang, WHCA president and CBS News correspondent, announced the rescheduled date in an email to association members, telling attendees that details on the venue and tickets would follow shortly. She announced that this event would be a “more intimate gathering” and that the rescheduling decision was “not automatic” and took into consideration the opinions of all members.
“When gunfire interrupted this year’s event, it further clarified the WHCA’s mission to advocate for the freedoms that are protected in the First Amendment,” Jiang wrote. “We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on the 250th anniversary of America and everything we stand for.”
The gunman opened fire outside the doors of the April dinner before being tackled to the ground by security. The suspect, Cole Allen, 31, pleaded not guilty in mid-May to four federal charges in his suspected assassination attempt of President Donald Trump.
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