Overview
- Investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman say gait analysis produced a 94%–98% match linking the suspect on surveillance video to Shauni Rae Kerkhoff.
- The reporting states Kerkhoff served with the U.S. Capitol Police for about four and a half years before moving to a CIA security detail in 2021.
- Blaze says it paused releasing the full identification to allow federal officials time to review the evidence for national-security concerns.
- The FBI recently released higher-quality footage of the Jan. 5 suspect, but it has not publicly named anyone in the yearslong investigation.
- A former FBI agent told Blaze he was assigned surveillance near the now-suspected address days after Jan. 6 before being redirected, an allegation cited as evidence of a possible cover-up.