Two FBI agents killed while serving warrant in Florida Matt Zapotosky, Paulina Firozi and Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post Feb. 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Two FBI agents were shot and killed and three others wounded early Tuesday morning as they tried to search the South Florida apartment of a suspect in an investigation of crimes against children, FBI officials said, marking one of darkest days in recent memory for the country's premier federal law enforcement institution. The deadly encounter was the first time since 2008 that FBI personnel were fatally shot while performing law enforcement work, and it drew comparisons to an incident 35 years ago in which two agents were killed and five others were wounded in a bloody shootout in a residential suburb of Miami. The bureau released few details of the encounter, other than to say a suspect opened fire on agents as they went to an apartment complex about 6 a.m. "to execute a federal court-ordered search warrant in furtherance of a violent crimes against children case."