{"id":7874,"date":"2025-10-19T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7874\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:09:32","slug":"man-rams-fbi-gate-in-pittsburgh-act-of-terror-suspect-apprehended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7874\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rams FBI gate in Pittsburgh ‘act of terror’; suspect apprehended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A man drove a car into a metal gate at the FBI\u2019s Pittsburgh field office early Wednesday in what authorities described as an intentional “act of terror<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The suspect, identified as Donald Henson of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, allegedly rammed an entrance gate at around 2:40 a.m. with a white Toyota sedan before getting out and then grabbing an American flag from inside the vehicle and throwing it over the gate, FBI<\/a> Special Agent in Charge Christopher Giordano said at a press briefing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Henson fled on foot after the crash and was considered dangerous, Giordano added. He was apprehended hours later, the FBI confirmed to Fox News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear if he was armed while on the loose. No FBI personnel were hurt.<\/p>\n

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Donald Henson, identified by the FBI as the suspect who rammed a vehicle into a security gate at its Pittsburgh field office on Sept. 17, 2025. (FBI)<\/p>\n

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“We look at this as an act of terror against the FBI,” Giordano said, per CBS<\/a>. “This was a targeted attack on this building.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Authorities said Henson, a former military member, may have been experiencing a mental health issue.<\/p>\n

“Right now, he is wanted in connection with this crime against the FBI,” Giordano added. “It is a federal offense and we will be seeking prosecution to the fullest extent.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A white sedan is seen after crashing into a gate at the FBI\u2019s Pittsburgh field office, Sept. 17, 2025. Officials said the driver fled the scene. (KDKA)<\/p>\n

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Giordano said that Henson visited the Pittsburgh office recently.<\/p>\n

“In scouring our indexes, we did find that he visited the field office a couple of weeks ago to make a complaint that didn’t make a whole lot of sense,” Giordano said. “We ran down everything that he came down with. It didn’t have a federal nexus. We contacted him to let him know there wasn’t a federal offense that we were able to charge.”<\/p>\n

Images from the scene showed a white sedan sitting with its driver’s door ajar in front of the bent gate and a security booth. The car\u2019s hazard lights were flashing.<\/p>\n

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A white sedan is seen lodged against the bent security gate outside the FBI\u2019s Pittsburgh field office after a crash authorities called intentional on Sept. 17, 2025. (KDKA)<\/p>\n

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Nakeisha Brown, who works nearby, told WTAE<\/a> she witnessed the incident and first heard the screeching of tires. She then saw the aftermath of the collision and a man who got out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

“He got out and went around the passenger side and pulled something out of the passenger side,” Brown said. “I thought it was a gun, but it happened to be a flag and he just set it on that fence and started yelling out some words and just took off.”<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Bryan Llenas contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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An American flag hangs on the damaged security gate outside the FBI\u2019s Pittsburgh field office after a car rammed the barrier, Sept. 17, 2025. (KDKA)<\/p>\n

Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.<\/p>\n

You can send tips to michael.dorgan@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @M_Dorgan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man drove a car into a metal gate at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6813,3635,4424,28,73,75,74,1427,445],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-crime-world","tag-fbi","tag-military","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police-and-law-enforcement","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","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=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}