Loner gunman who attacked FBI office with a nail gun was a Navy veteran with top-secret clearance who accumulated several speeding tickets and was devoted to former President Trump.
was a Navy veteran with top-secret clearance who served on submarines and apparently had a need for speed, records and sources revealed Friday.
Shiffer, who was 42 when he died Thursday after a standoff with pursuing police officers, enlisted in the Navy in June 1998 and underwent 10 months of training before being assigned to the USS Columbia. His assignment was overseeing electronic equipment associated with weapons such as missiles and torpedoes.
It was not immediately clear what happened in that case because that police record has been purged and the Moorhead Police chief did not respond to an email from NBC News seeking access to the arrest information.
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