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Feb. 3
South Florida just earned a shameful distinction it is the single region in the country where the most FBI agents have been killed since G-men were created in 1908.
The latest bloody chapter played out Tuesday morning. FBI Special Agents Daniel Alfin, 36, and Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, were killed in a horrific shootout at a Sunrise apartment building where they were serving a warrant. They died in the line of duty protecting children from a man thought to be a sexual predator. Our condolences go out to their families.
Three other agents were wounded.
What went wrong is now the painful question that FBI investigators will work doggedly to answer. A somber George Piro, Miami FBI Special Agent in Charge, rightly called Alfin and Schwartzenberger heroes, who left home Tuesday morning to do their jobs.
Miami Herald
South Florida just earned a shameful distinction it is the single region in the country where the most FBI agents have been killed since G-men were created in 1908.
The latest bloody chapter played out Tuesday morning. FBI Special Agents Daniel Alfin, 36, and Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, were killed in a horrific shootout at a Sunrise, Florida, apartment building where they were serving a warrant. They died in the line of duty protecting children from a man thought to be a sexual predator. Our condolences go out to their families.
Three other agents were wounded.
What went wrong is now the painful question that FBI investigators will work doggedly to answer. A somber George Piro, Miami FBI special agent in charge, rightly called Alfin and Schwartzenberger heroes, who left home Tuesday morning to do their jobs.
South Florida dealt with another FBI tragedy 35 years ago
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MIAMI – Tuesday’s shootings in Sunrise that left two FBI agents dead mark the second time a law enforcement tragedy of this scope has happened in South Florida.
Nearly 35 years ago, on April 11, 1986, two FBI agents were shot and killed and five others were hospitalized in one of the most violent days in the agency’s history.
It happened in Miami, in what is now Pinecrest, when two bank robbers took on eight to 10 FBI agents along South Dixie Highway.
Benjamin Grogan, 53, and Jerry Dove, 30, were the agents killed that day.