November 10, 2025 - Kerkhoff served with the USCP from 2018 until mid-2021, including time in the Civil Disturbance Unit and as a training officer for less-lethal crowd-control weapons used on Jan. 6. After leaving the Capitol force, she later moved to a security ...

March 2, 2022 - Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff told jurors that the estimated 30 to 40 pepper balls she launched at Reffitt "didn't affect his behavior."

November 8, 2025 - According to the report, Shauni Kerkhoff has worked as a Capitol Police officer for about 4.5 years. Kerkhoff stopped working during mid-2021 after she got a job at the Central Intelligence Agency, as told to the outlet by different sources.

On November 8, 2025, The Blaze unleashed what it called a bombshell revelation: that the elusive January 6 pipe bomber had finally been identified as Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, a onetime Capitol Police officer now employed by the CIA. The report raced through right-wing media outlets and online forums, igniting a storm of speculation about a supposed deep-state conspiracy.

3 weeks ago - It should be noted that the CIA said Kerkhoff was working security at the CIA. Shauni reportedly used her neighbor’s SmarTrip card, which was purchased by her neighbor, when she traveled to DC on January 5-6.

November 11, 2025 - Kerkhoff, who served over four years with the Capitol Police and later worked in campus security for the CIA, fits the profile gathered by investigators examining the hoodie-wearing pipe bomb suspect whose devices were planted near the Democratic ...

November 9, 2025 - Remember the name Shauni Kerkhoff. In 2015, during a soccer game, she broke her tibia and underwent five hours of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. The surgery left her with a very specific gait in her walk. ... A forensic analysis of the female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s walking gait is a 94%-98% match to the specific stride of the long-sought Jan.

March 3, 2022 - On January 6, 2021, then-Capitol police officer Shauni Kerkhoff encountered Guy Reffitt on the steps of the Capitol — she clutching a "pepper ball" launcher akin to a paintball gun, he with a megaphone to his mouth and a pro-Trump mob behind ...

November 8, 2025 - According to Steve Baker at Blaze News, Shauni Kerkhoff (27), a former Capitol Police Officer, was the J6 pipe bomber. Kerkhoff “was a Capitol Police officer for four and a half years, left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail ...

November 10, 2025 - The effort waylaid an audit that Sen. Ted Cruz was set to request. The publication reported that the former officer, Shauni Kerkhoff, produced a 94% match with a gait computer program used by federal investigators.

3 weeks ago - The report went on to imply that a source close to a congressional investigation on the matter told the outlet that emerging evidence pointed toward law enforcement’s involvement in the planting of the pipe bombs, naming 31-year-old Shauni Rae Kerkhoff of Alexandria, Virginia, a former Capitol Police officer who went on to work at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as a suspect in the case.

November 8, 2025 - Shauni Kerkhoff was a U.S. Capitol Police officer in the Civil Disturbance Unit on January 6, 2021. She testified in trials of J6 defendants, including Guy Reffitt, about firing pepper balls at advancing rioters from the Capitol steps.

3 weeks ago - After publication, Steve Bunnell, whom the Washington Post identified as an attorney for the Capitol Police officer, told the Post his client "categorically denies" that she planted the pipe bombs.

Kerkhoff, 31, served with the Capitol Police for more than four years and later joined a security detail affiliated with the CIA, The Blaze said. A CIA spokeswoman clarified that while Kerkhoff had worked in campus security, she was never assigned ...

The veteran analyst who ran the ... Police officer for four and a half years, left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail at the Central Intelligence Agency, sources told Blaze News....

According to the Blaze Media report citing sources, Shauni Rae Kerkhoff served with the U.S. Capitol Police from 2018 until mid-2021. She left in good standing after about four and a half years, transitioning to a security role at the CIA.

Shauni Kerkhoff was a U.S. Capitol Police officer in the Civil Disturbance Unit on January 6, 2021. She testified in trials of J6 defendants, including Guy Reffitt, about firing pepper balls at advancing rioters from the Capitol steps.

March 8, 2022 - Shauni Kerkhoff, who was one of the Capitol police officers who tried to repel Reffitt, said she launched pepperballs that didn’t stop him from advancing.

3 weeks ago - Blaze News said the analysis compared samples of the ex-officer's gait taken from Jan. 6 Capitol Police CCTV footage to video of the pipe bomb suspect from a source outside of the FBI. A "video sleuth" reportedly told the outlet that FBI-released footage had been downsampled.

November 11, 2025 - A forensic investigation commissioned by Blaze News has identified former U.S. Capitol Police officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff as a near-perfect match for the