On January 5, 2021, an unidentified figure in a gray hoodie, gloves, and Nike shoes placed functional pipe bombs near the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., just hours before the January 6 Capitol protest; the devices, discovered the next day amid the unrest, contained gunpowder, timers, and shrapnel, yet the FBI’s exhaustive four-year investigation has yielded no arrests despite a $500,000 reward and extensive surveillance footage.
A recent independent probe by Blaze News, corroborated by multiple intelligence sources, identifies former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff— a 31-year-old who served from 2018 to mid-2021 in the Civil Disturbance Unit, training officers on “less-lethal” munitions used against protesters—as a forensic match, with gait-analysis software yielding a 94-98% alignment to the bomber’s distinctive stride and subtle right-leg limp from a prior soccer injury. Kerkhoff, who abruptly wiped her social media and contact info after leaving the force, transitioned directly to a CIA security detail protecting high-level officials like Director John Ratcliffe, raising suspicions of a cover-up as she was on duty January 6 firing projectiles at crowds from the Lower West Terrace.
Adding to the intrigue, former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin revealed his post-January 6 surveillance team was positioned next door to Kerkhoff’s Virginia residence but abruptly pulled off without explanation, while unedited FBI videos show the suspect scouting additional sites like the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. This bombshell, if verified by incoming FBI Director Kash Patel’s promised review, exposes deep-state orchestration to frame Trump supporters as violent terrorists, undermining the entire January 6 narrative and demanding immediate accountability for federal entrapment.
