A woman who witnessed the beginning of Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner described a horrifying scene to The Independent as guests, service workers and other hotel guests streamed out of the Washington Hilton into the dark streets of Washington D.C. on a drizzly Saturday evening.
Flavienne, a server at the venue, described how she was pushing a service cart into an elevator with another female employee when a man dressed in a suit to blend in with attendees withdrew a long gun from his person and opened fire at least 3 times.
She described a scene of panic unfolding: “The lady was behind me, she was working with me. She [was trying to] push the cart [in the elevator]…The guy passed just close to her. Just like you pass like this — and then he pulled out the gun, the long gun. He shot that gun Immediately, like three shots.”
A man with short brown curly hair, identified in a picture posted by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, was taken into custody by law enforcement.
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