The sister of the deranged man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner armed with guns and knives said he had a tendency to make “radical” statements about politics and had a fixation about needing to do “something” about the issues in today’s world as he saw it through his twisted lens.
Avriana Allen, 27, told Secret Service and Montgomery County Police about his obsession with world events and “constantly” made reference to a “plan” to fix the country, sources told The Post.
She said he purchased two handguns and a shotgun from Cap Tactical Firearms and stored them at their parents’ home without their knowledge, and that he made regular trips to the shooting range to train.
Avriana graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a double major in journalism and statistics and a creative writing minor, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She works in Washington, DC at think tank Pew Research Center, and was previously a full stack web developer and data engineer at CalMatters — a nonprofit newsroom based in California, where she developed interactive voter guides for the 2021 gubernatorial recall election, the 2022 general election and the 2024 presidential races.
Allen, 31, a CalTech graduate who was named teacher of the month at C2 Education, a tutoring service where he worked part-time, allegedly put his impotent rage into action Saturday night when he attempted to barge into the gala with the intention of killing as many Trump administration officials as he could.
He exchanged gunfire with Secret Service agents before being tackled and arrested at the hotel before he could inflict the carnage he allegedly intended.
One agent was struck by gunfire in their bulletproof vest but is expected to recovery fully.
Allen laid out his demented plot in a sprawling, anti-Trump manifesto he sent to family members 10 minutes before unleashing the attack on the event and its nearly 3,000 attendees.
In it, he referred to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin,” and characterized his actions as a righteous struggle against the “crimes” of the Trump administration, calling the president a “traitor” in the unhinged missive.
“I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure,” the manifesto read in part.
“I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.”
He also had an account on BlueSky — the lefty alternative to X — where he repeatedly posted liberal rants and Democratic talking points.
A small sampling of his posts on the left-wing echo chamber social network included calling Elon Musk a “Hitlerian figure,” decrying Vice President JD Vance as “a piece of sh-t” and condemning President Trump as “a sociopathic mob boss.”
“Trump is literally one of those villains that if you beat his ass hard enough, he’ll join your team. Don’t really have any other insights to this, it’s not really actionable cause no way schumer just canes him into acting his age, but, like, it would probably literally work on him,” he wrote.
Allen also went off the rails when Trump shared a controversial AI-generated photo of himself as a Christ-like figure.
The self-proclaimed Protestant Christian shared several reposts calling out the Trump administration’s Christian hypocrisy and suggesting many members should be categorized as “satanic idolators.”
“i’m not sure that you can work for this admin and be any flavor of genuine christian believer and see trump post something like this [Trump as Jesus] without understanding, at some level, deep down, that you are f–king damned, even if you’ll never admit it to anyone,” one repost read.
The White House said Sunday that Allen’s brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut prior to the shooting, revealing that he had sent the document around to family members.
