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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.
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.
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