Overview
- Previously unreleased surveillance clips trace the suspect’s route on Jan. 5, 2021, including planting a device at the DNC around 7:54 p.m. and a second near the RNC at about 8:16 p.m., with the person last seen at 8:18 p.m.
- The individual appears about 5 feet 7 inches tall, wearing a gray hoodie, mask and black gloves, and distinctive black-and-gray Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow logo, a model of which fewer than 25,000 pairs were sold.
- Authorities say the devices used 1×8-inch threaded galvanized pipes, end caps, kitchen timers, wires, metal clips and homemade black powder, and the FBI has publicly described them as viable and capable of causing serious harm.
- The bombs were discovered the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, leading to the evacuation of then–vice president-elect Kamala Harris from the DNC headquarters, and no detonation or injuries were reported.
- The FBI says it has conducted more than 1,000 interviews and reviewed tens of thousands of video files without identifying the suspect, and it is offering up to $500,000 in combined rewards from federal and local partners; separate reporting has questioned lab-report language, which the FBI’s public statements have not adopted.