OsazuwaAkonedo Audio ~ Flights Delayed, 1 Dead As Gunman Engage US Border Police In Texas

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Speaker 1: Flights at McCallan International Airport on Monday early morning were

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delayed for several hours as twenty seven years old gunman

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Ryan Louis Mosqueda ambushed and shot at the United States

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U S Border Police Patrol agents in Texas, injuring two

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police offices and a Border Patrol employee, which the suspect

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was later shot dead at the entrance of the U. S.

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Border Patrol federal building. This occurred less than forty eight

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hours when on Saturday, a North Texas police officer was

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ambushed at the DHS facility and shot in the neck

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by eight men in body armour. These incidents happened amid

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nationwide rise in threads to immigration and Custom Enforcement IC

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personnel and border patrol agents over President Donald trump immigrants

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deportation policy. Local media reported that the federal agents returned

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fire at the suspect, identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, who

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was armed with a rifle and wearing a utility vest.

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Mosqueda was killed at the scene. McCall Police Chief Victor

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Rodriguez said U S. Department of Homeland Security, in a

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statement on its ex social media handle, stated that this morning,

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an individual opened fire at the entrance of the United

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States Border Patrol Sector Annex in McAllen, Texas. Both Border

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Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter. Two

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offices and a Border Patrol employee were injured, including one

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shot in the knee. All three have gone to the hospital.

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This is an ongoing investigation led by the FBI. While

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blaming politicians for the continuous attacks on security operatives, the

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U s Homeland Security Department said this administration is not

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playing games with the lives and safety of URICE offices.

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Ice law enforcement is facing a seven hundred percent increase

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in assaults against them due to retoric from politicians like

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Mayor Bass Secretary knowns. Message is clear, if you lay

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a hand on ane law enforcement officer, you will be

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prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The suspect

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never made it inside the building, but fired many many

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rounds at the building. Rodriguez said. Mosquedda has a Michigan

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address and arrived in a car with additional weapons and

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ammunition inside. The police added. McCallan police responded to the

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scene shortly before six a m. Where the shooter attacked

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the federal building with an assault rifle at about five

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forty five a m. According to local media and residence.

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Local media added that Ismail Garcia, a ten year veteran

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with the McCallan Police who responded to the scene, was

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struck in the need during the shootout and is in recovery,

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quoting Chief Rodriguez, who said it during a news conference,

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Three offices sustained gunshots injuries from inside the building as

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bullets shattered the windows, sending shards of glass flying. According

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to local media, incidents like these make us reach that

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we’ve to always be on guard to keep our community safe,

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Rodriguez said, adding that the offices and a Border Patrol

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employee who were injured, including the officer who was shot

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in the knee, are expected to recover. It was gathered

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that law enforcement offices at the scene found additional assault

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weapons and ammunition in the vehicle, and spray painted writing

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was found on the side of the vehicle. Police is

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yet to provide further details of the lettering and stated

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that it’s unknown if it’s connected to the attack. Mosqueda

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is believed to have some ties to the community, as

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he was reported missing from a Wesler Co. Address approximately

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eighteen miles east of McCallum at four a m. However,

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Rodriguez could not disclose the nature of those ties. Rodriguez

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said a motive for the attack remains unknown and declined

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to call the attack an act of terrorism, saying not

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enough information is available. However, the FBI will now lead

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the investigation. As the incident in attack on federal offices

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and a federal building. Flights at the nearby McCallan International

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Airport were delayed for several hours as law enforcement secured

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the area. US President Donald Trump, a Republican, has made

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combating illegal immigration a top priority, sending troops to secure

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the US Mexico border and launching aggressive raids in U

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s cities, which led to widespread protests by Americans against

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the White House policy. The anti illegal immigrant policy supported

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by Trump’s hardline Republican base, have also led to pushback

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from Americans concerned about arrests of non criminals and enforcement

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tactics that include offices wearing masks to hide their identities.

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Images from the scene showed cordisty, a Latin phrase meeting

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hard day, written on the driver’s door of the white

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two door car. Cordisti is also a fictional populist revolutionary

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movement in the call of Duty Black Operations to video game,

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according to fan websites, as reported by Reuters. Reuters also

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reported that Mosqueda’s father was stopped for a traffic infraction

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at three forty eight a m. In Weslico and told

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police he was searching for his son, according to a

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report by local Telemundo station T forty, citing Weslco Police,

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adding Mosquader’s father, Jose Mosqueda, told an officer his son

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had a mental deficiency, had not taken any medication, and

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was carrying firearms in his vehicle. According to the T

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forty report, police identified the license plate of Ryan Mosqueder’s

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vehicle and alerted authorities. The report said Weslerco Police did

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not respond to a request for comment, and it was

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not immediately possible to contact Jose Mosqueda. The facility where

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the shooting took place houses border patrols special operations teams.

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According to a former US Customs and Border Protection official,

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flights at the nearby McCallan International Airport were delayed for

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several hours on Monday as law enforcement secured the area.

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It would be recalled that several suspects were taken into

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custody after a police officer was injured in a shooting

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at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado,

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Texas in the late night hours of fourth of July

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twenty twenty five. Local media reported that just before eleven pm,

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the Alvarado Police Department said it was called to the

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twelve hundred block of Sunflower Lane outside the ICE Prairieland

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Detention facility on a report of a suspicious person. When

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offices arrived, they saw a person who appeared to be

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carrying a firearm. According to a news release, Alvarado Police

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said that when one of the first responding offices tried

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to engage with the person, an unknown number of suspects

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opened fire. At least one bullet struck an officer in

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the neck. Police said the injured offer officer was flown

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from the scene to a Fort Worth hospital, was treated

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and later released, Alvarado Police said. According to Alvarado Police,

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several armed suspects were taken into custody after trying to

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flee the scene. Lady, bringing you bringnese in a mortgage

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