White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had said goodbye to the press corps last Friday as she began maternity leave for her second child. But Saturday’s attack by Cole Thomas Allen — the man subdued as he tried to enter the ballroom of Washington’s Hilton hotel armed, while U.S. President Donald Trump was attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — brought her back to the podium on Monday.

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When Susan Wilkerson returned from running errands on February 27, she couldn’t find her husband, the astronautical engineer and retired Army General William McCasland, at their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His prescription glasses and phone were still there. His wallet, his .38 caliber revolver and his hiking boots were missing. Fifty-eight days have passed, and there is still no trace of him.

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It was meant to be one of the great nights on the Washington calendar, the one in which, like every spring, political power and the press cross the threshold that separates them to celebrate the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in the grand ballroom of the Hilton Hotel. And it ended up being a night to remember, but for unimaginable reasons. At 8:36 p.m. on Saturday, as Donald Trump was about to speak for the first time at a traditional event he had declined to attend four times, the sound of gunfire at a security checkpoint one floor above changed the course of the evening. At that moment, Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California, entered the annals of political violence in a country with more guns than citizens and which has seen four presidents killed in office.

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