(Washington) The armed man killed Thursday by law enforcement after trying to enter the offices of the federal police (FBI) in Ohio had posted a “call to arms” on the social network of Donald Trump , Truth Social, several US media reported on Friday.
Posted at 12:57 p.m.
Several American media published screenshots of the account in the name of the suspect identified by the Ohio police as Ricky Shiffer, 42, on which one can read: “This is a call to arms”.
The account has since been removed from Truth Social.
“I propose war”, adds the author, calling on “patriots” to go to Florida and kill FBI agents, the day after the search Monday at the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida, an unprecedented raid which angers the Republican camp.
The author confesses to having tried to enter by force the premises of the FBI in Cincinnati.
“I thought I could drill armored windows, and I couldn’t,” he explains. “If you haven’t heard from me, it’s true that I tried to attack the FBI, and that will mean that I was banned from the internet, that the FBI got me or that they sent the police for…,” he wrote in a message that was interrupted in mid-sentence and published Thursday morning, according to media reports.
The FBI had announced an armed person had attempted to “break and enter” its offices in Cincinnati, Ohio early Thursday morning.
According to local media, the man, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, used a nail gun and brandished an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon, before fleeing by car.
After a chase with the police, the man took refuge in a cornfield, where he was surrounded by the police. When they tried to arrest him, he brandished his firearm in the direction of the police, who fired, fatally wounding him.