{"id":7870,"date":"2025-10-19T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7870\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:44:35","slug":"driver-arrested-after-ramming-car-into-fbi-pittsburgh-hqs-gate-in-an-act-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7870\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested after ramming car into FBI Pittsburgh HQ&#8217;s gate in &#8216;an act of terror&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0crazed\u00a0driver rammed a car into a gate of the FBI\u2019s Pittsburgh office early Wednesday before walking away \u201clike nothing happened\u201d \u2014 in what the agency is treating as \u201can act of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donald Henson, a military veteran with a history of mental health problems, was busted after an hours-long manhunt following the 2:40 a.m. attack, the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p>His white Toyota was covered in profane messages when it was plowed into the back gate of the building on the Steel City\u2019s south side \u2014 with the driver getting out and hurling an American flag over the fence while shouting incoherently, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/fbi-pittsburgh-vehicle-slams-into-gate-entrance-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Henson, a military veteran with a history of mental health problems, was busted after an hours-long manhunt following the 2:40 a.m. attack, the FBI said. FBI<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look at this as an act of terror against the FBI,\u201d said FBI Pittsburgh Assistant Special Agent\u00a0In\u00a0Charge Christopher Giordano.<\/p>\n<p>Nakeisha Brown, who works nearby,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/im-blown-away-right-now-witnesses-describe-crash-into-fbi-building-gate-in-pittsburgh\/66136309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told WTAE<\/a>\u00a0she heard screeching tires and saw the suspect yelling before he left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got out and went around the passenger side and pulled something out of the passenger side,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought it was a gun,\u00a0but\u00a0it happened to be a flag,\u00a0and\u00a0he just set it on that fence and started yelling out some words and just took off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just walked away like nothing happened,\u201d said another nearby worker, Idez Columbie.<\/p>\n<p>The driver allegedly tried to blow through the back gate of the FBI Pittsburgh office.  KGO-TV<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was hurt in the incident. FBI Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>The car appeared to have some profanity-laced messages on one of its side windows, Giordano said, without elaborating on what was written.<\/p>\n<p>Henson was known to FBI agents because he recently went to the office to make a complaint that didn\u2019t \u201cmake\u00a0a whole lot of sense,\u201d Giodano said,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/crime-courts\/2025\/09\/17\/fbi-pittsburgh-gate-crash\/stories\/202509170045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A witness claimed the suspect just walked away \u201clike nothing happened.\u201d  KGO-TV<\/p>\n<p>He has a history of mental illness, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A bomb squad was called,\u00a0and\u00a0the white Toyota\u00a0was searched\u00a0by authorities outside the gate, footage from the scene shows.\u00a0Nobody was hurt during the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0crazed\u00a0driver rammed a car into a gate of the FBI\u2019s Pittsburgh office early Wednesday before walking away \u201clike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3635,6839,28,73,75,74,302],"class_list":["post-7870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fbi","tag-manhunts","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}