Cole Tomas Allen\u2019s story is now a chilling collision of promise and devastation. On paper, he was everything a family, a school, a country might celebrate: Caltech engineer, computer science <\/p>\n\n\n\n
graduate, \u201cTeacher of the Month,\u201d indie game developer, quiet church kid from a leafy Los Angeles suburb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet that same young man allegedly arrived at the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, handgun, and knives, having already written a<\/p>\n\n\n\n
thousand-word farewell that mixed affection, rage, and a self-appointed mission to punish a president he called a \u201ctraitor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His final writings reveal a mind both meticulous and unmoored\u2014calculating train routes to avoid airport security, coolly dissecting what he called \u201cinsane\u201d lapses in protection,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
while apologizing in advance to family and strangers who might suffer. Investigators now sift through his code, his coursework, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
his politics, his faith community, trying to understand how a \u201cfriendly federal assassin\u201d first learned to aim not at targets on a screen, but at living people in a crowded room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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