REPORT: Former Trump official’s car used in DC homicide

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EXCLUSIVE — On Dec. 11, 2022, while receiving full-time protection from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service in regard to threats from Iran, a former Trump administration official had two personal vehicles stolen from the driveway of his northern Virginia home.

Brian Hook, formerly the State Department’s special representative for Iran, was in his residence while the thefts occurred. Three weeks later, one of those vehicles was used in a Jan. 3 rush-hour shooting in the Brightwood area of northern Washington, D.C. Two adults and an 8-year-old child were wounded in the shooting. One adult male was killed. The association between the car theft and the shooting has not previously been reported.

The Diplomatic Security Service is a federal law enforcement agency that investigates certain crimes such as visa and passport fraud. It also supervises the security of U.S. embassies abroad and provides personal protection for the U.S. secretary of state, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, visiting foreign dignitaries other than heads of state, and certain U.S. diplomats. In response to multiple Iranian assassination plots, however, the Diplomatic Security Service and the Secret Service have provided and continue to provide protective details for a number of former Trump administration officials. The Diplomatic Security Service retains protective details for Hook and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.