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Police Locked After a standoff with an armed man who tried to break into an FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, he fled earlier in the day and exchanged gunfire with officers, officials said.
The incident was still active as of Thursday afternoon but has been contained, Ohio officials told reporters at a news conference. said they had not been successful in breaking into the building.
"Law enforcement engaged in a shootout with a male suspect wearing a gray shirt and body in his armor," the Clinton County Emergency Management Department previously said, adding that the area's He urged people to stay indoors and lock their doors.
NBC News reported that the suspect, armed with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle, fired a nail gun into the building. Authorities have closed two highways and imposed a blockade in the area.
The suspect was fleeing in a white car when the shots were fired, officials said.
The man attempted to break into the FBI building's visitor screening facility before fleeing onto Interstate 71, the FBI Cincinnati field office wrote on his Twitter account.
Details and motive unknown.
This week, FBI agents raided Donald Trump's former President Trump's Florida mansion to investigate whether the president illegally removed records from his White House when he left office. Since then, the FBI has been the target of online threats. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Brendan O'Brien in his Washington, Editing by Rami Ayyub, Howard Goller and Daniel Wallis)
