Ricky Shiffer attacks FBI Cincinnati field office with AR-15 after Mar-a-Lago search

On August 11, 2022, two days after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Ricky Shiffer, 42, a Navy veteran and prolific Truth Social user who had attended the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, attempts to breach the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15-style rifle and a nail gun, Shiffer tries to force his way through a security screening area, exchanges gunfire with officers, then flees to a rural field where he is killed after a six-hour standoff with law enforcement. In the days after the Mar-a-Lago search, Shiffer posts escalating calls for violence against the FBI on Trump's Truth Social platform, writing: "Well, I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn't. If you don't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it is likely that I was taken down by the F.B.I." The Institute for Strategic Dialogue documents that Shiffer was "motivated by a combination of conspiratorial beliefs related to former President Trump and the 2020 election, interest in killing federal law enforcement, and the recent search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago." The ADL designates Shiffer as a "radicalized Trump supporter" who "saw the Mar-a-Lago search as a call to arms."