Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was Ape’s second mission. The Czech German Shepherd was searching inside an abandoned bar in upstate New York for a man accused of killing four people and shooting at police officers when the suspect shot the tactical dog in the chest, the New York Times reports. Police returned fire and killed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Royce E. Curtin, who led the FBI’s Fort Hood shooting investigation in 2009, has been tapped to head up the agency’s Norfolk Field Office. Curtin last served as chief of staff and special assistant to a high-ranking executive who oversees all FBI criminal, cyber, crisis response, and international operations. Curtin joined…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a shooting of one of its own at a police training center in Oklahoma Thursday, News 9 Oklahoma reports. Agents are tight-lipped about what happened, but sources told News 9 that the agent did not shoot himself. The agent was being treated Thursday evening for a gunshot wound…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s firearm training has begun focusing on close-quarters combat after a review found that most agent-involved shootings are within point-blank range, the USA Today reports. The new training protocol is a dramatic shift for an agency that has relied on long-range marksmanship training. After reviewing about 200 shootings during a 17-year…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The driver of a white van shot a Canadian Border Services Agency officer in the neck before apparently turning the gun on himself at Canadian crossing in Washington state Tuesday, reports KIROTV. The man, whose name was not released, died at the scene of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the female…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One thing is for sure: A mother of five was killed in her car by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near San Diego. Why the agent opened fire last week on Valeria Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, remains the subject of an investigation and much debate in the heavily Latino suburb of Chula Vista,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As investigators continue to investigate the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in the border town of Naco, Ariz., another agent who was shot during the incident was released from the hospital Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The wounded agent, who still has not been named, was shot in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators in helicopters and on ATVs and horseback scoured the desert near the U.S.-Mexico line Tuesday to piece together what happened when a Border Patrol agent was fatally shot and his partner wounded in Arizona, the Associated Press reports. Authorities identified the slain agent as Nicholas Ivie, 30, who lived in Sierra…
