Authorities released the identity on Monday of the man who opened fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas in what appeared to be an ambush attack on border patrol agents.
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The shooter has been identified as 27-year-old Ryan Louis Mosqueda, who officials say fired off dozens of rounds, injuring a police officer and sending another officer and a border patrol agent to the hospital before he was shot and killed by authorities, the Associated Press reported.
The AP report noted:
Mosqueda allegedly pulled up to the facility in a white two-door sedan. Rodriguez said something was written on the car, possibly in Latin, but “what it means, or whether or not it is an underlying reason for him being here, I do not know.”
Mosqueda was linked to an address in Michigan but was reported missing from a Weslaco, Texas, address around 4 a.m. Monday. Weslaco is about 20