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A shooter who has allegedly set fire to a federal patrol agents outside a federal building in McLene, Texas, has been identified by the authorities as 27 -year -old Michigan resident Ryan Lewis Mosquito.
An active shooter equipped with a strategic gear and rifle reached a border petrol annex feature in McLene, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, as they set the border patrol agents on fire. Law enforcement believes that the attack was a purposeful ambush that targeted the border patrol authorities.
At a press conference after the shooting, McClen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez, while identifying the suspected shooter as a mosquito, said that he allegedly set the agents on fire, firing “several, dozens of round rounds” in the building.
Rodriguez confirmed that the suspect was killed on the spot by agents returning on fire.
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An active shooter equipped with a strategic gear and rifle reached a border petrol annex feature in McLene, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, as they set the border patrol agents on fire. Law enforcement believes that the attack was a purposeful ambush that targeted the border patrol authorities. (Getty image and ice)
According to the police chief, there is no known objective yet why the mosquito allegedly set fire to the border patrol agents.
He said that the suspect is connected to a address in Michigan and he reached the scene driving a vehicle with Michigan plates. He also mentioned that the suspect’s car “some language on him,” possibly spray-painting with Latin, that he could not understand.
According to Rodriguez, Mosquitoda was reported to be missing from a address in a nearby Veslako and “an hour and a few minutes later he was at this special place, setting fire to a federal building.”
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McLen City Hall in Hidalgo County, Texas, (Istock)
In a statement emailed to Fox News Digital, a spokesman from FBI San Antonio, McLene Police received the calls of shots being heard by a local border patrol facility near McClen International Airport at around 5:53 pm.
The spokesperson said armed suspects, whom he did not identify as a mosquito, but an “adult male”, “” responded to the law enforcement officers at the scene and the authorities returned the fire. ,
According to the spokesperson, an answer officer was injured in bullets and was taken to the local hospital for treatment. The officer is now in a stable position.
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The FBI representative said that “there is no threat to public safety at present that we know about it” and this investigation is on.
According to a statement by DHS on X, two officers and a border patrol staff were injured during the shooting, including a shot in the knee.
Anders Hagstrom and Fox News’ Bill Melugin of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.