White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect no longer on suicide watch, lawyers say

Defense lawyers for the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last week say he’s being deprived of his dignity and resources by being unnecessarily kept under suicide precaution status.

Defense lawyers for the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last week say he is no longer on suicide status in the Washington D.C. jail he's being held in, according to a court filing from Sunday afternoon.

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The attorneys said their client, Cole Tomas Allen, was previously being deprived of his dignity and resources by being unnecessarily kept under suicide precautions.

In a motion filed Saturday, Allen’s attorneys requested that he be taken off any suicide restrictions, which they characterized as “demeaning,” while he’s awaiting further hearings in the case. The attorneys said they are withdrawing his motion for removal from suicide status since it’s now moot, and asked Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui to cancel a hearing that had been scheduled for noon on Monday.