UPDATE: The suspect was armed with an AR-15 style rifle when he fired into the FBI office building with a nail gun. He fled and a standoff followed. — via NBCNews
The man who fired a nail gun into a FBI Cincinnati building Thursday before he was killed by officers was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, officials said.Officers fatally shot the suspect after failing to negotiate with him, Ohio State Police spokesman Lt. Nathan Dennis told reporters.It wasn't clear if he fired, Dennis said, nor was it clear who fired the fatal shot. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, which Dennis described as a rural area off Interstate 71.
"At approximately 9:15 EST, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office had an armed subject attempt to breach the Visitor Screening Facility ," FBI Cincinnati said in a statement."Upon the activation of an alarm and a response by armed FBI special agents, the subject fled northbound onto Interstate 71."Clinton County Emergency Management Agency alerted that Interstate 71 was closed in both directions in the area of the standoff at 1 p.m. The agency issued an update around 5 p.m.
"Law enforcement has traded shots with a male suspect who is wearing a gray shirt and body armor," the agency said in an initial statement, warning people nearby to stay inside and lock their doors. Ohio State Highway Patrol said the suspect had fired shots from a Ford Crown Victoria while he was being pursued by police.
Brian Murphy, a former official at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI who’s now an executive at the open source intelligence firm Logically,
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