Cincinnati FBI Attacker Once Lived in St. Cloud

(KNSI) — The man killed by police in Ohio Thursday after allegedly attacking the Cincinnati Field Office of the FBI once lived in St. Cloud.

According to NBC News, Ricky Walter Shiffer was stopped in Minnesota in February of 2004 for driving 50 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone, reportedly telling the officer, “I have a lead foot.” The ticket showed Shiffler with a St. Cloud address.

NBC News also says the 42-year-old Shiffer was arrested in Moorhead in July 2003 and charged with misdemeanor obstruction of the legal process. He pleaded guilty in August of that year. Court records for the case have reportedly been purged.

In a post on his Truth Social account on August 9th, one day after the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Shiffer said he was “proposing war” and encouraged others to “be ready to kill the enemy…Kill the FBI on signt, and be ready to take down other active enemies of the people and those who try to prevent you from doing it.”

He also had other violent posts on that account and Twitter. Both accounts have been suspended.

August 11th, authorities say he fired into the Cincinnati FBI office with a nail gun and fled the scene. He was pursued by police and allegedly exchanged gunfire with them following failed negotiations during a standoff on a stretch of rural Ohio interstate. Reports say Shiffer had a nail gun and an AR-15 style rifle with him.

He died at the scene.

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