Trump Evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner After Gunshots Heard in Ballroom

First presidential attendance at the event in years ended abruptly when loud bangs erupted outside ballroom

Wolf Blitzer hit the floor as Secret Service agents surrounded him, the sound of six gunshots echoing through the Washington Hilton corridor just outside the ballroom where President Donald Trump was attending his first White House Correspondents' Dinner as a sitting president in years. Within moments, Trump and First Lady Melania were evacuated from the venue as hundreds of journalists, politicians and guests ducked under tables in scenes of chaos that transformed Washington's most glamorous media night into a security nightmare.