Former US gymnast opens up on 'terrifying' moment shots were fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner

Former Team USA women's gymnast Jennifer Sey was a impermanent astatine the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner successful Washington, D.C., connected Saturday erstwhile shots were fired.

Sey told Fox News Digital her absorption to the shooting successful an exclusive statement.

"Terrifying. Should person been an astonishing night. I came to observe escaped code and those who judge successful it. As I walked successful and determination were protesters I was frightened for a infinitesimal and past I thought it’s ok. I was wrong," she said, adding she was forced to fell "under table."

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Jennifer Sey, the 1986 U.S. nationalist all-around gymnastics champion, performs a divided leap during competition. (XX-XY Athletics/Jennifer Sey)

Jennifer Sey is simply a erstwhile elite gymnast champion known for winning the 1986 USA Gymnastics National Championship. A seven-time subordinate of the U.S. Women's National Team, she achieved this apical nationalist rubric aft recovering from a breached femur successful 1985. Her accomplishments besides included a third-place squad decorativeness astatine the International Mixed Pairs and a second-place squad decorativeness astatine the USA-URS Dual Meet successful 1987.

Sey, who is besides the laminitis of the activistic sportswear marque XX-XY Athletics, has go a salient activistic successful the "save women's sports" and wide blimpish question successful caller years.

Jennifer Sey founded XX-XY Athletics successful March 2024 to stress the empirical information of biology, she said. (XX-XY Athletics)

Chaos erupted astatine the White House Correspondents’ Dinner erstwhile gunshots were heard and President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump were rushed retired of the Washington Hilton ballroom Saturday night.

Video from wrong the lawsuit showed attendees diving nether tables and taking screen arsenic panic dispersed passim the room.

Fox News’ John Roberts reported from the ballroom that shots were fired and that helium had heard the suspected shooter was engaged by Secret Service.

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier said helium besides heard shots fired, but noted they did not look to originate from wrong the ballroom.

Sources told Fox News the idiosyncratic ne'er made it wrong the ballroom, was taken into custody and removed from the scene.

President Trump was seen being rapidly escorted retired of the country by security, and White House officials archer Fox News Digital some he, the archetypal woman and Karoline Leavitt are harmless astatine this time.

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It remains unclear what prompted the incident.

Fox News Digital's Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.

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