Metropolitan Police Department Acting Chief Robert Contee announced shortly after the attack that the perpetrator was not known to police before the attack, neither for connection to a member of Congress or for terrorism.[1] The suspect was later determined to be Noah Green, a 25-year-old African American male from Indiana,[2][12] who said he was a follower of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, a Black nationalist Muslim organization.[6] The suspect described during recent Facebook posts that the last years were "tough", and that "since the COVID-19 pandemic started it was tougher." Two weeks prior to the attack, he posted about "The Divine Destruction of America", and other topics such as the Antichrist and had encouraged “everyone to study Revelations, study the signs of end times, study who the best is, study who the anti-Christ is, study who the false prophet is, and study the created images during those times.”.[6][13]