A 24-year-old U.S. soldier, Pfc. Cole Bridges, also known as Cole Gonzales, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to help the Islamic State group attack American troops.
The 20-year-old man who opened fire at a Walmart in Ohio on Monday and wounded four people appears to have been at least partially inspired by “racially motivated violent extremism,” the FBI announced, citing his journals.
Four Federal Bureau of Prisons employees, a pilot and an inmate escaped injuries Wednesday when the plane they were riding in crashed in Geauga County, Ohio.
A gunman wearing body armor was killed following an hours-long standoff that began when he tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office on Thursday morning.
Tim Kolonick had a long career in law enforcement, including more than 20 years as an FBI agent and stints as a Cleveland police officer and Secret Service agent.
Eric B. Smith, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Field Office, has retired.
For nearly a decade, FBI Agent Vicki Anderson-Gregg has served as the spokeswoman for the bureau’s Cleveland Field Office.
A gunman who opened fire in downtown Dayton, Ohio and killed nine people and wounded 27 others in August 2019 had an “enduring fascination with mass violence,” according to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.
