A 27-year-old man from Michigan, Ryan Louis Mosqueda, has been identified as the suspect in an ambush on Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas. The incident, which took place outside a federal building in the Rio Grande Valley, resulted in the suspect being killed on the scene by returning gunfire.
Law enforcement has confirmed that the attack was a targeted ambush against Border Patrol officials, with one officer injured in the crossfire and several others hurt, including a Border Patrol employee. The motive behind the shooting remains under investigation, and authorities have not yet determined any specific reason for the attack.
McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez, who spoke at a press conference following the incident, stated that the suspect was associated with an address in Michigan and arrived at the scene driving a vehicle with Michigan plates. He also mentioned that the suspect’s car had spray-painting on it with ‘some language on it,’ possibly Latin, that he could not decipher.
According to Rodriguez, Mosqueda was reported missing from an address in nearby Weslaco and ‘an hour and a few minutes later he was at this particular location, opening fire on a federal building.’ The FBI representative, in a statement emailed to Fox News Digital, noted that McAllen police received calls of shots being heard by a local Border Patrol facility near the McAllen International Airport at approximately 5:53 a.m.
The armed suspect, who was not identified as Mosqueda but rather an ‘adult male,’ ‘engaged the law enforcement officers responding to the scene and officers returned fire.’ A spokesperson for the FBI San Antonio office also mentioned that one responding officer was injured in the gunfire and was transported to a local hospital for treatment, with the officer now in stable condition.
Additionally, the DHS on X reported that two officers and a Border Patrol employee were injured during the shooting, including one shot in the knee. The FBI representative stated there is ‘currently no threat to public safety that we are aware of’ and that the investigation is ongoing.