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Two FBI agents were shot dead by divorced IT expert, 55, during child porn raid on his Florida apartment

Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, and Special Agent Daniel Alfin, 36, died trying to execute a search warrant in Sunrise, Florida early Tuesday

IT consultant David Lee Huber, 55, has been identified as the suspect who shot dead the two FBI agents during the raid for a child porn case

Huber, armed with an assault-style rifle, lay in wait for the agents and opened fire on them through his door after tracking them on his doorbell camera

It is not yet clear if the agency knew the suspect was heavily armed or if they underestimated his response to the raid

The child porn suspect is believed to have killed himself after barricading inside the apartment

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Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger[left] and Special Agent Daniel Alfin, [right] died trying to execute a search warrant at an apartment in Sunrise, just outside Fort Lauderdale, early Tuesday

The images of the two FBI agents shot dead during a Florida raid have now been released , as it’s revealed the child porn suspect who killed them is a 55-year-old computer expert and divorcee who lived alone.
Special Agents Daniel Alfin, 36, and Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, died trying to execute a search warrant at an apartment in Sunrise, just outside Fort Lauderdale, early Tuesday. 
David Lee Huber was the target of a federal search warrant in a child pornography case, law enforcement officials say.
Huber, who was armed with an assault-style rifle, lay in wait for the FBI agents and opened fire on them through his unopened door after observing them through the doorbell camera. 
He is believed to have killed himself after barricading himself in the apartment. 

Suspect: David Lee Huber, [photo], the target of a federal search warrant in a child pornography case, armed with an assault-style rifle, lay in wait for the FBI agents and opened fire on them through his unopened door after observing them through the doorbell camera 

Florida court records show Huber with only minor traffic violations. He had no listing as a sex offender and no Florida prison record. 
Records show he owned computer consulting businesses from 2008 until last year. Broward County records show he was divorced in 2016. 
The FBI has not officially confirmed if Huber was the suspect, maintaining that they were not releasing his identity until relatives were informed. 
The confrontation on Tuesday marked one of the bloodiest days in FBI history. 
The FBI has so far released very few details about the deadly shooting and a number of questions remain unanswered as to how a search warrant, which agents carry out regularly, went so awry. 

David Lee Huber shot himself behind the barricade after he shot Special Agents Laura Schwartzenberger [photo] and Daniel Alfin

The suspect, who was armed with an assault-style rifle, lay in wait for the FBI agents and opened fire on them through his unopened door after observing them through the doorbell camera.
It is not yet clear if the agency knew the suspect was heavily armed or if they underestimated his response to the raid. 
It also isn’t clear if agents announced themselves at the door or if they lost their element of surprise.  
Retired FBI agent Richard Kolko told CBS Miami that something obviously went ‘awfully wrong’. 
‘Getting that many agents caught up in the line of fire – something really went wrong and they’re going to break that all down,’ Kolko said. 
He said the planning phase of executing a search warrant is meticulous.    

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The suspect, who was armed with an assault-style rifle, lay in wait for the FBI agents and opened fire on them through his unopened door after observing them through the doorbell camera, killing Special Agents Alfin [left], and Schwartzenberger [right], before turning the gun on hiself
SWAT vehicle crashed through barricades at the David Lee Huber’s apt 1

The FBI has so far released very few details about the deadly shooting and a number of questions remain unanswered. The only official comments have come from George Piro, the head of the FBI’s Miami field office, who said agents ‘meticulously plan’ and carry out search warrants almost every dayFBI says Florida shooting is ‘dark day’ for organization.

The Sunrise shooting is a ‘dark day’ for the organization said George Piro had of the Florida field office, while observing that FBI agents ‘meticulously plan’ and carry out search warrants almost every day

The FBI has so far released very few details about the deadly shooting and a number of questions remain unanswered. The only official comments have come from George Piro, the head of the FBI’s Miami field office, who said agents ‘meticulously plan’ and carry out search warrants almost every day.
‘It basically covers every contingency: radios, hospitals, route of entry, routes of egress, all kinds of things are going into a very complex plan,’ he said. 
‘That has to be signed by a supervisor, or above, and then they execute the plan early in the morning. That’s the best time to try to arrest someone.
‘Clearly something went awfully, awfully wrong.’  
The shooting unfolded around 6am on Tuesday in the middle-class neighborhood of single family homes, duplexes and apartment buildings.  
Agents went to the first-floor apartment to execute a federal court-ordered warrant related to a case involving child porn and what they described as ‘violent crimes against children’. 
They were trying to seize the suspects computer, as well as any other evidence, related to the investigation. Sources say the FBI had found an IP address for the suspect’s computer on an internet service provider and linked it to that address. 
The FBI has not released any details about what the man was being investigated for or what they suspected was on his computer.
Sources told the Miami Herald that the suspect tracked the arrival of agents through his doorbell camera. 
He opened fire on them through the door with an assault-style rifle before they could even get inside the apartment. 
‘There are several huge holes in the door going outward,’ a law enforcement official said.  

Schwartzenberger [left], a 16-year veteran with the agency worked out of the Miami office with the violent crimes against children unit. Alfin, [right], who joined in 2009 also investigated child exploitation cases, had previously worked at FBI headquarters handling major cases involving violent crimes against children


Schwartzenberger, 43, had been an agent with the FBI since December 2005 and worked in the Miami field office on a squad of agents handling violent crimes against children, according to court records. 
Her work primarily focused on tracking offenders who sexually exploit children online and investigating other crimes against children. 
Schwartzenberger is survived by a husband and two children.

The shooting unfolded around 6am on Tuesday in the middle-class neighborhood of single family homes, duplexes and apartment buildings.

Huber is believed to have killed himself after barricading himself in his apt.
One of the slain agents is brought out of an ambulance on a flag-draped stretcher arriving at a medical examiner’s officer surrounded by law enforcement
Broward County Sheriff’s deputies escort a Coral Springs Parkland Fire Department vehicle as it leaves the County ME’s office after the killing of two FBI agents on Tuesday

Alfin, 36, who also investigated child exploitation cases, had previously worked at FBI headquarters handling major cases involving violent crimes against children, according to court records. 
He had a degree in information technology and went through the FBI´s specialized training programs for cybercrimes. He was involved in a major child exploitation investigation dubbed Playpen that resulted in arrests around the world.  He is survived by a wife and child. 

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