First responders confirmed a shooting took place early Tuesday morning in a Sunrise, Florida neighborhood.
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Law enforcement officers block an area where several FBI agents were shot while serving an arrest warrant, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Sunrise, Fla. Author: Associated Press, 10 Tampa Bay Published: 7:42 AM CST February 2, 2021 Updated: 1:48 PM CST February 2, 2021
SUNRISE, Fla. Two FBI agents were killed and three wounded Tuesday after a standoff with a shooter in South Florida that forced people living nearby to huddle inside their homes as shots rang out and SWAT teams stormed an apartment building.
The confrontation in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Sunrise marked one of the bloodiest days in FBI history in South Florida and among the deadliest nationally as well.
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In addition to the two agents who were killed, three were wounded, officials said By Willard Shepard and NBC 6 Digital Team •
Published February 2, 2021 •
Updated on February 2, 2021 at 6:30 pm
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Two FBI agents were killed and three were wounded in a shooting in Sunrise Tuesday morning, officials said
FBI officials said the agents were executing a federal court-ordered search warrant related to a violent crimes against children case at a home when they were shot at
The suspect in the investigation was also dead, officials said
Two FBI agents were shot and killed and three others were injured while serving a search warrant early Tuesday morning in a Sunrise neighborhood, setting off a massive police response and lockdown.
Two FBI agents fatally shot, three wounded while serving warrant in South Florida
After barricading himself in the home for several hours, the suspected gunman is believed to have shot and killed himself, one law-enforcement source said.
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It may seem routine, but law enforcement officers and agents say serving warrants can also be among their most dangerous tasks â with the risk heightened by the uncertainty of who might lurk behind a closed door.
At dawn Tuesday in Sunrise, law enforcement sources say a man armed with an assault rifle blasted a group of FBI agents from a child-pornography task force after he spotted them through a doorbell ring camera. Special Agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger, there to serve a search warrant aimed at seizing the still-unidentified manâs computers, were killed. Three others were wounded in one of the deadliest days for the FBI in decades.
The deadly shooting happened early Tuesday morning in a neighborhood in Sunrise, Fla. Author: Associated Press, 10 Tampa Bay Published: 8:42 AM EST February 2, 2021 Updated: 2:48 PM EST February 2, 2021
SUNRISE, Fla. Two FBI agents were killed and three wounded Tuesday after a standoff with a shooter in South Florida that forced people living nearby to huddle inside their homes as shots rang out and SWAT teams stormed an apartment building.
The confrontation in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Sunrise marked one of the bloodiest days in FBI history in South Florida and among the deadliest nationally as well.
The fallen agents have been identified as Special Agent Daniel Alfin and Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger.
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