President Donald Trump said a man charged the security checkpoint at the White House correspondents’ dinner with multiple weapons and shot one Secret Service officer before being taken down by other officers.

The suspect, who is in custody and has been widely identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old teacher from Los Angeles, California, charged the Washington Hilton checkpoint from 50 feet away. He then shot a Secret Service officer, but the bullet hit his bulletproof vest. He is recovering, and Trump said he spoke with him.

“[The suspect] was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service, and they acted very quickly, and have just released, for purposes of transparency, clarity … a tape showing the violence of this thug that attacked our Constitution and also showing how quickly Secret Service and law enforcement acted on our country’s behalf, really did a great job,” Trump said Saturday evening at a press conference after the event.

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The shooting occurred just after the first course of the dinner. Attendees immediately ducked under tables after shots were heard outside the ballroom.

“I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was, in one way, very beautiful,” Trump, still in his tux he wore during the event, said.

Allen, the suspect, is a lone wolf, according to Trump.

“He was a guy who looked pretty evil when he was down. … He was fighting hard,” the president said. “He was, in my opinion, a sick person. Who would do that, but a sick person?”

“He was fast he was running full blast and they got him,” he added.

More information about Allen is expected to come out in the coming days.