Cole Thomas Allen’s façade of success fooled everyone. Before opening fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, this 31-year-old engineer was the pride of his community in Torrance.
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A graduate of the prestigious Caltech, a video game developer on Steam, and awarded “Teacher of the Month” at the C2 Education tutoring center.
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His students saw him as a kind genius, but in the darkness of his room, Allen was drafting a manifesto under the alias “Friendly Federal Killer,” detailing a plan to attack high-ranking government officials.
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“He was very quiet. He only ever moved around on that blue scooter” , recalls his neighbor Paul Thompson, incredulous as he watched the FBI surround the beige house where the young man lived with his parents.
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