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The New York Times reports:
Investigators are looking into whether the man who tried to breach the F.B.I.’s field office in Cincinnati on Thursday had ties to extremist groups, including one that participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter.
The suspect, identified by the officials as Ricky Shiffer, 42, seems to have appeared in a video posted on Facebook on Jan. 5, 2021, showing him attending a pro-Trump rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington the night before the Capitol was stormed.
In May, a Twitter user named Ricky Shiffer replied to a photograph of rioters scaling the walls of the Capitol on Jan. 6 with a message that claimed he was present at the building and seemed to place the blame for the attack on people other than supporters of former President Donald J. Trump.
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“In another Twitter post, [he] wrote about the…Proud Boys: ‘Save ammunition, get in touch with the Proud Boys and learn how they did it in the Revolutionary War, because submitting to tyranny while lawfully protesting was never the American way.’“
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) August 11, 2022
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) August 11, 2022
NEW: Two law enforcement officials have confirmed to NBC News that Ricky Walter Shiffer, the suspect in the attack on the FBI field office in Cincinnati, is dead.
Shiffer was present at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Reporting with @jonathan4ny.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 11, 2022
The NYT has identified the Ohio shooting suspect as “Ricky Shiffer.” There is a Truth Social account using that same name. On the same day the FBI executed a warrant on Mar A Lago, the account made a call to “be ready for combat” and to “Kill the FBI on sight.” https://t.co/xifjCxQ43N pic.twitter.com/j99w3NJxZ3
— Travis View (@travis_view) August 11, 2022
The last post was from the the Ricky Shiffer account on Truth Social is from this morning. It states:
“If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it’ll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops while” pic.twitter.com/K0XsRprmBL
— Travis View (@travis_view) August 11, 2022
NEW: These photos appear to show Ricky Shiffer, the suspect in the FBI office attack, behind police lines during the Jan 6th attack on the US Capitol. Final image is Shiffer’s social media profile photo, for comparison. I am not 100%, but the face is a close match. pic.twitter.com/LgRVd4iCPD
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 11, 2022
A twitter profile that appears to belong to alleged Ohio FBI attacker Ricky Shiffer shows a reply guy seemingly radicalized by far right political figures like Andy Ngo, Dinesh D'Souza, and Josh Hawley. pic.twitter.com/c3EL2ANyDh
— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) August 11, 2022
