Man Accused of Firing on White House Correspondents Dinner IDed

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He was supposed to be the future.
A Caltech engineer, a game developer, a beloved tutor — and now the man accused of opening fire outside one of Washington’s most powerful events. As details emerge about Cole Allen’s quiet genius, eerie parallels surface between the games he built and the chaos he allegedly unleashed in rea…

Cole Allen’s life reads like the blueprint for a quiet success story: Caltech graduate, JPL research fellow, physics-obsessed game creator, and, more recently, an award-winning teacher pursuing an advanced degree in computer science. On paper, he was the kind of person parents point to when they tell their kids what hard work can achieve. His games, “First Law” and “Bohrdom,” were intricate worlds of calculated chaos, built on the laws of motion and impact, where players navigated bullets, velocity, and survival in tightly controlled digital arenas.

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