traffic stop, but stiffer blood and during the pursuit, he fired his weapon other troopers. at about 9:53 pm, ricky shiffer here in a rural county of clinton, will eric listen, county and exchanged gunfire with troopers as he got out of his car. that led to an hours long standoff in a cornfield trooper says he did try to negotiate, and try to capture him with less than lethal force. they then shot him, and pronounced that at the scene. early today there was speculation and fear that this attack may have been motivated by the dangerous far-right response to the fbi's source of former president donald trump's personal residence at mar-a-lago. and tonight, there are new indications that that may in fact be the case. nbc news has confirmed that ricky shiffer was at the capitol riots on january 6th, but it was his actions in recent days that are most unsettling. the day after the raid on mar-a-lago he took to trump's social media network, to social it's called and he posted a