Published Tuesday, February 2, 2021 9:57AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, February 2, 2021 3:32PM EST SUNRISE, Fla. - Two FBI agents were fatally shot and three wounded while trying to serve a search warrant in Florida on Tuesday, prompting a SWAT team to storm an apartment building where the suspect was holed up as neighbours huddled inside their homes. The suspect also ended up dead. 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, according to the FBI website. The FBI agents had come to the apartment complex to serve a federal search warrant in connection with a case involving child pornography and violent crimes against children, according to FBI Miami Special Agent Michael D. Leverock and FBI Agents Association President Brian O Hare.
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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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