Cincinnati shooting suspect Ricky Shiffer was shot dead by police on the side of an interstate highway hours after he attempted to breach a visitor’s entrance at an FBI field office in the city.
The 42-year-old, of Columbus, Ohio, fled the scene of the attempted attack on Thursday morning before a standoff and shootout took place hours later.
Officials are investigating Shiffer’s ties to the US Capitol riot and right wing extremism as he appears to have claimed that he was present in Washington on 6 January on Truth Social, a pro-Trump social media site.
Shiffer also appeared to support former US president Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election in 2020 and responded to social media posts by pro-Trump figures such as congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Jr.
Ricky Shiffer, the Ohio man who died in an armed standoff with police on Thursday after attacking an FBI field office in Cincinnati, was a military veteran.
Republicans and rightwing commentators accused of stoking violence and endangering lives as armed man attacks FBI office in Ohio.
Anger at the FBI continues to build on Truth Social, the social media platform founded by Donald Trump.
Ricky Shiffer was among the angry Truth Social users attacking the FBI, after the agency searched the former president’s home in Mar-a-Lago.
A post on Truth Social from an account appearing to belong to Shiffer seemed to confess to the attack.
A Truth Social page allegedly belonging to Ricky Shiffer.
According to an analysis from The Washington Post, Shiffer appeared to be one of Truth Social’s most prolific posters, sending out 374 messages in the week before the FBI shooting, most of them pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
More details have begun to trickle in about Ricky Shiffer, the Ohio man who tried to shoot up an FBI office in Cincinnati on Thursday before being killed by police after a daylong police standoff.
Now that officials have identified Ricky Shiffer of Ohio as the man who attacked a Cincinnati FBI office on Thursday, those who knew the gunman, who was killed by police, are starting to share their recollections.
Family members are speaking out about Ricky Shiffer, the Ohio man shot by law enforcement after attacking an FBI post on Thursday.
Social media accounts thought to belong to FBI shooting suspect Ricky Shiffer have come under scrutiny since his death on Thursday following a shoot-out with officers and an attempted attack on the bureau’s office in Cincinnati.
Analysis of the FBI attack suspect’s social media history by Huffington Post suggests he also tweeted about support for the Proud Boys, the far right militia group connected to January 6?
Social media posts under the name Ricky Shiffer suggest the suspect in Thursday’s attack in Cincinnati called on others to “Save ammunition” and “Get in touch with the Proud Boys”, analysis from a think tank shows.
As well as content on Twitter and Donald Trump’s own platform Truth Social, Shiffer is believed to have posted on the video streaming website Rumble, the report said.
The search, which a law enforcement official suggested to The Washington Post was in connection with an investigation into classified nuclear documents allegedly kept at Mar-a-Lago by Mr Trump, came days before the FBI’s office was attacked in Cincinnati.
On Wednesday, FBI personnel were warned to avoid protesters and to avoid showing their security keys in public as a result of an increase in threats made against the bureau by far right social media accounts.
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