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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 graduate, \u201cTeacher of the Month,\u201d indie game developer, quiet church kid from a leafy Los Angeles suburb. Yet that same young man allegedly arrived at the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, handgun, and knives, having already written a thousand-word farewell that mixed affection, rage, and a self-appointed mission to punish a president he called a \u201ctraitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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, while apologizing in advance to family and strangers who might suffer. Investigators now sift through his code, his coursework, 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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