‘We heard shots and got under the table’: Cheryl Hines gives chilling eyewitness account of White House event shooting
The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday was interrupted after shots were fired at the grand ballroom hosting the event. Even as President Donald Trump was not injured and there were no fatalities, the shooting incident created a major scare for the US administration as well as the guests present there. Among the attendees was actor Cheryl Hines, who was at the annual media gala in Washington with her husband, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Security officials evacuate U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Cheryl Hines, as a shooter opens fire during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 25, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (REUTERS) Cheryl Hines recalls the shooting Hours after the shooting, Cheryl took to social media to share her first-person account of the incident. Talking to the camera from a bathroom, she recalled, “We were there, and we heard shots, and everybody got under the tables. Nobody knew what was going on.” Referring to …






