Who is Cole Allen
According to his LinkedIn profile and online records, Allen’s life and career trace an accomplished path as a computer scientist, engineer and independent game developer, even building a shooter role-playing game called "First Law."
In September 2013, according to his online profile, he enrolled in the highly competitive California Institute of Technology, known as CalTech, to pursue a BS in mechanical engineering, graduating in 2017. CalTech confirmed to Fox News Digital that a student named Cole Allen graduated from the school in 2017.
Fox News Digital unearthed a 2017 video showing him as a quiet Caltech engineering student presenting an invention for seniors in Los Angeles.
At the “Aging into the Future” conference, he demonstrated a wheelchair brake prototype — built with simple piping used for plumbing.
Kneeling beside a wheelchair, speaking in a flat, affectless tone, he explained:
“The wheelchair brakes tend to lock the wheels but don’t actually lock the chair to the ground… The deal with this is to prevent it from moving at all.”
The device itself?
Not sophisticated — a basic pipe-based contraption that experts say didn’t reflect advanced mechanical engineering for a Caltech senior.
His future, on paper, looked stable.
In the summer of 2014, he wrote that he landed another competitive spot as a summer undergraduate research student fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he said he contributed to astrophysics research.
That summer, his profile says, he created "First Law," a physics-based role-playing shooter game based on realistic two-dimensional space combat. At CalTech, he also built offensive and defensive robotic systems, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He later made "Bohrdom," a complex 2-D physics-based video game that he described as a "combination of a racing game with a bullet hell as experienced by self-propelled pinballs," released on the popular Steam gaming platform, according to his profile.
Beginning in March 2020, his LinkedIn profile says, he joined C2 Education, a tutoring company, enrolling at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2022 to pursue an MS in computer science, graduating in May 2025. That school also confirmed that a person by the same name graduated with a master’s degree that year.
A Dec. 30, 2024 Facebook post from C2 Education congratulated "Cole Allen of C2 Education Torrence on being honored as December teacher of the month." A photo matching that of Allen was attached to the post.
According to Federal Election Commission records, Allen donated $25 to Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle.
Investigators say Allen had drifted further into anti-Trump extremism, attending a "No Kings” protest organized by Indivisible, MoveOn, People's Forum, ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation and 500 groups with about $3 BILLION in revenues.
A portrait emerges of a man radicalized.
Cole Allen said in his manifesto: "...I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes."
Those words are very familiar to me. I have seen them shouted at No Kings rallies over the past year.
See their graphic designs that the anti-Trump nonprofits began in 2016, continuing through today, even selling this on T-shirts:
"Traitor'
"Rapist"
"Unfit"
"Moron"
"Pedophile"
Now charged in a federal case, Allen’s trajectory raises a chilling question: How does someone go from a quiet engineering student focused on helping seniors to an accused gunman with a manifesto outlining violence?
The answers lie in the rhetoric of a manifesto that parrots the rhetoric of nonprofits manifesting in a young man the very hate they have been bringing to life on the streets.
Nancy Pelosi, 25 April 2026
… be commended for their swift action to secure the scene and protect those present.It is a great relief that the President, First Lady and everyone in attendance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is safe following a terrifying act of violence inside the venue.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 26, 2026
The brave men and women of the United States Secret Service and local law enforcement are to…
As someone whose family has suffered political violence, my prayers are with the injured officer and all those affected by the trauma of these horrible incidents.
Like clockwork… Democrats spend years perpetually calling a political opponent every evil thing imaginable, watch their base internalize it, then act stunned when things escalate—followed by the usual ‘violence is never acceptable’ routine.
— Exit the Left (@_ExitTheLeft) April 26, 2026
Piss off.
Seeing a trend already from Democrats talking points. Thanking the police and SS for swift action. Both groups that the Dems defunded and called for their removal.
— Stone & Sling (@LungSteven78813) April 26, 2026
Really? Maybe you, Schumer, Jeffries & the rest of the democrats should stop the nonstop hate speech about President Trump. There is a direct correlation between your constant hate speech & the crazies trying to kill our President.
— Doxiegirl (@Doxiegirl3g) April 26, 2026
Rich!!!!! And yet she has voted how many times to defund the Secret Service and DHS???? How can anyone take these Dems seriously????
— Scott Tilson (@ScottnSC12) April 26, 2026
… environment. At some point, the people shaping the narrative need to acknowledge the consequences of the climate they helped create.When the Left and the media spends years pushing extreme narratives, it shouldn’t be surprising when those narratives create fear, tension, and instability. This assassination attempt looks less like a random act and more like the inevitable backlash of an overheated information…
— RLM (@RLMn3xy) April 26, 2026
Give me a break. It’s amazing how some people who showed no real concern before suddenly become experts in compassion once the incident fails. The fake grief is hard to stomach. 🤮
— Batayear (@Batayear) April 26, 2026
Look at the comments. The American people see through your nonsense. You’re part of the problem causing these assassins to come out of the woodwork.
— Hawaiian Spy (@hawaiian_spy) April 26, 2026
The View
Nick Fondacaro
… climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the Earth is in a lot of trouble.ABC News co-host Joy Behar suggests the Trump administration is literally trying to kill everyone:
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 23, 2026
"BEHAR: You know, sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us.
GOLDBERG: You think?
BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, you got - you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with… pic.twitter.com/71sZMfMtnz
But here you've got a guy who is in charge of our health, who is a former heroin addict, a—he swam in sewage. Who does that?! Who does that?! And that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America. Do not put up with this! We're in a lot of trouble! Don't we—don't people see that?!
Your Client Should Voluntarily Dismiss This Frivolous Lawsuit Today
It’s time to build the ballroom. pic.twitter.com/cUMkVpehGY
— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) April 26, 2026
… President to do his job.This lawsuit is on behalf of a single person who walks in the vicinity of the White House once a month and expects to dislike the East Wing’s new design. The passing aesthetic gripe of a single person cannot possibly justify delaying the construction of a secure facility for the…
— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) April 26, 2026
Senator Sanders, 26 April 2026
… Nazis, eventually enough people will believe it. Then saying, “Political violence is political cowardice. It is unacceptable in all forms,” is cowardice given the words shouted from your very own mouth.My life became increasingly at risk after I exposed mass fraud in Democrat states, where Democrats would rather defend the fraudsters than the person exposing the fraud.
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) April 26, 2026
The rhetoric and attitude from the party you belong to is a major problem.
By calling people fascists and…
Similarities
… bury this story.Two months ago, Austin Tucker Martin was shot dead by Secret Service after breaching security at Mar-a-Lago because he wanted to kill President Trump.
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) April 26, 2026
He called Trump a rapist and a pedo and was obsessed with the Epstein list, just like Cole Allen.
Don’t let the left and media… pic.twitter.com/nWMYEfy1EH
Senator Slotkin, 26 April 2026
ELISSA SLOTKIN: President Trump is an “existential threat to democracy.”
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 26, 2026
Your vile rhetoric is inciting violence against President Trump and Republicans. pic.twitter.com/80HyshfdXM https://t.co/gP7gM30iCz
Governor Walz, 26 April 2026
This you? https://t.co/bX9zREYIql pic.twitter.com/yCWhMzjlh3
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) April 26, 2026