The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner was interrupted after shots were fired at the grand ballroom hosting the event. Actor Cheryl Hines, who was in attendance with her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared her first-person account of the incident.
Cheryl recalled, 'We were there, and we heard shots, and everybody got under the tables. Nobody knew what was going on.'
She added that her husband's security detail surrounded them and took them through the back ways, eventually getting them to safety.
A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, charging toward the ballroom in a chaotic encounter with Secret Service agents.
Police believe he opened fire and acted alone, but did not say who his intended target was or describe a motive.
President Donald Trump attended the event, but was not injured. He later addressed the media, saying, 'When you're impactful, they go after you. When you're not impactful, they leave you alone.'
