And that news of an FBI agent killed in Miami sent a shockwave through a small city 100 miles south of Denver. Schwartzenberger was a Pueblo native who left the state some time after college and pursued a career in law enforcement.
Credit: Kandace Gecewicz I saw her name and kind of looked twice, her former high school swim Coach Cecil Townsend said. I told my wife, I said, Oh my God, Laura has been killed.
Like others, Townsend knew she was in law enforcement, but didn t know to what degree. Schwartzenberger joined the FBI in 2005. She was reassigned to FBI Miami in 2010 and had worked crimes against children cases for over seven years.