WSJ: Dead Cincinnati FBI Shooter Tied To Proud Boys

August 12, 2022 Extremists, Trump cultists

Axios reports:

The armed man who attempted to break into the FBI building in Cincinnati has been identified as Ricky Shiffer, the Ohio Department of Safety said Friday.

Shiffer, who was shot and killed after a standoff with police, was allegedly at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Associated Press reports. He was not charged with any crimes related to Jan. 6.

The 42-year-old man from Columbus, Ohio, is suspected to have had ties to extremist groups, including the Proud Boys, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Washington Post reports:

Shiffer was fatally shot by police after fleeing the FBI building and leading officers on a chase that led to a six-hour standoff on a rural road, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said in a news release. After negotiations failed, police attempted to utilize “less lethal tactics” to arrest Shiffer, but he “raised a firearm” and officers shot him, they said.

Shiffer died at the scene. Authorities are investigating a possible motive, in addition to Shiffer’s possible ties to extremist groups, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said.

His name is used on several social media platforms by an individual who spoke about being at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and urging a “call to arms” after the FBI executed a search warrant at former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate on Monday.

CNN reports:

On the Truth Social account, which has been active only the last few weeks, the user communicated to others with increasingly politically violent and revolution-minded thoughts.

But it was not until the FBI executed a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday that the user began to fixate on responding with violence toward the agency.

“People, this is it,” the user wrote on Monday. “I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me.” In that post, the user encouraged people to go to gun and pawn shops to “get whatever you need to be ready for combat.”

The Associated Press reports:

A now-suspended Twitter account, @rickyshiffer, shared the same profile picture as the Truth Social account and similar opinions, including a call for armed conflict in the U.S. this past spring. It included posts saying that “elections are rigged” against conservatives and that the country faces “tyranny.”

Shiffer was a registered Republican who voted in the 2020 primary from Columbus, Ohio, and in the 2020 general election from Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to public records. He enlisted in the Navy in 1998 and served on the USS Columbia submarine from 1999 to 2003, according to military records.

NBC News reports:



Shiffer was at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, according to three people aiding law enforcement who saw him in photos taken from the day of the attack; however, it’s unclear whether he went inside the building. Shiffer frequently posted about his attendance at the Capitol on social media.

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