Shawn Boburg

Washington, D.C.

Investigative reporter

Education: Williams College, BA in history

Shawn Boburg joined The Washington Post in 2015. He previously worked at the Record in northern New Jersey from 2006 to 2015 and at the Eagle-Tribune in Massachusetts from 2001 to 2006.
Latest from Shawn Boburg

Local police complained about Secret Service after Trump rally shooting, videos show

Body-cam footage released Thursday shows local police searching for Thomas Matthew Crooks in the moments before he opened fire.

August 8, 2024

Tim Walz’s military record, National Guard departure get new scrutiny

The Harris-Walz campaign has cited his military experience as an asset. But Republicans and some who served with him have questioned claims about his service.

August 7, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Tuesday, his first with Vice President Kamala Harris since being announced as her running mate earlier in the day.

‘We lost sight of him’: Radio traffic shows failed search for Trump rally shooter

A disjointed communications system on the day of the rally hampered the Secret Service’s ability to grasp the threat in real time, a Post examination found.

August 3, 2024

Trump rally gunman stopped firing after local officer shot at him

Thomas Matthew Crooks temporarily recoiled from his rooftop perch and did not shoot again before he was killed by a Secret Service countersniper.

July 30, 2024

Police snipers were inside building as Trump rally shooter fired from roof

The Washington Post reported in a video analysis Monday that bystanders at the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., warned local police that they had seen a man clambering onto the roof of the building.

July 16, 2024
Two FBI investigators on Sunday scan the roof of the building adjacent to the Butler, Pa., fairgrounds where a gunman fired at Donald Trump on Saturday.

Police were warned of Trump rally shooter at least 86 seconds before gunfire, video shows

A Post analysis of the video backs up reports from other witnesses, who have said they tried to alert police in the moments before shots rang out.

July 15, 2024
An aerial view of the stage where former president Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pa.

On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm

A global network of online groups has targeted thousands of children with a sadistic form of social media terror that authorities and technology companies have struggled to control, an examination finds.

March 13, 2024

Trump ally emerged from shadows to deal blow to Ga. case against former president

Mike Roman is in the spotlight after his legal team filed a bombshell brief alleging improprieties by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis.

February 2, 2024
Mike Roman, seen in his booking photo Aug. 25 in Atlanta, is charged along with Donald Trump for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

Nathan Wade, embattled prosecutor in Georgia Trump case, has little prosecution experience

The accusations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired, have threaten to upend the case against Trump and his allies.

January 14, 2024
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade speaks at a motions hearing for former president Donald Trump’s election interference case at the Lewis R. Slaton Courthouse on Friday in Atlanta.

Jet accident probe expands to include Boeing supplier

Spirit AeroSystems builds the fuselage of the Boeing’s 737 Max 9 jets at its Wichita factory before shipping them for finishing by Boeing.

January 12, 2024
Boeing 737 fuselage sections sit on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita