good evening, after days of increasingly violent rhetoric against the fbi, right wing social media and elsewhere, in the wake of the api search of the former presidents mention and attempts to discredit the bureau by republican lawmakers from several cable channels, we have seen the first deadly consequences. and armed men killed in a shootout after trying to beach the fbi cincinnati office, somebody whose name is on the social media account spelling out in vivid detail the war he apparently was launching. cnn s brynn gingras is reporting on the deeply troubling story with the latest. brynn, what happened and what are you learning about the suspect? anderson, we learned from multiple sources that the suspect is ricky shiffer, 42 years old. investigators are trying to figure out what connection he had with right extremist groups. what happened earlier today is that the cincinnati field office of the fbi, ricky shiffer walked in there, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and a na
multiple sources that the suspect is ricky shiffer, 42 years old. investigators are trying to figure out what connection he had with right extremist groups. what happened earlier today is that the cincinnati field office of the fbi, ricky shiffer walked in there, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and a nail gun and tried to breach the office. an alarm was sounded, he was pursued by law enforcement not just on the federal side but local and state as well. there was a stand off for several hours in the rural area of ohio, which ended when law enforcement tried to have non lethal ways to bring him in and negotiate with him, but then he was killed in this standoff, when none of that was working. like you said we have come across a user on donald trump s s truth social, bearing the name of ricky schiffer. we do have one source time my