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NoSheep

(8,381 posts)
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 01:12 PM Jul 2025

Man Opens Fire on Border Patrol Building in Texas and Is Fatally Shot

Source: New York Times

The New York Times
July 7, 2025, 12:23 p.m. ET

Headline in email:
Man Opens Fire on Border Patrol Building in Texas and Is Fatally Shot

I cannot read the article in the NYT due to a paywall.

link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/mcallen-airport-shooter-border-patrol.html

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/mcallen-airport-shooter-border-patrol.html



It will be interesting to learn who this unfortunate person "is" if we ever know the truth.
Was this a performance?
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Man Opens Fire on Border Patrol Building in Texas and Is Fatally Shot (Original Post) NoSheep Jul 2025 OP
Post removed Post removed Jul 2025 #1
Past the paywall UpInArms Jul 2025 #2
thanks NoSheep Jul 2025 #4
I think I read about this yesterday. Expect more of these performances to create the desired pretext. PSPS Jul 2025 #3
psyop purple_haze Jul 2025 #5
He sacrificed himself for a psyop? Nah. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2025 #6
A fatal performance? Igel Jul 2025 #7
No. NoSheep Jul 2025 #9
Named as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, from Michigan muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #8

Response to NoSheep (Original post)

PSPS

(15,376 posts)
3. I think I read about this yesterday. Expect more of these performances to create the desired pretext.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 01:31 PM
Jul 2025

muriel_volestrangler

(106,605 posts)
8. Named as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, from Michigan
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 04:13 PM
Jul 2025
Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, began shooting in the parking lot, aiming toward the building and law enforcement officials, just before 6 a.m., said John Saenz, a spokesman for the McAllen Police Department. One responding police officer, Ismael Garcia, a 10-year veteran of the force, was wounded in the knee and is being treated at a local hospital, Saenz said. He is in stable condition.
...
Authorities have not determined a motive. Mosqueda was a Michigan resident, according to his forms of identification and his vehicle tags and registration, Saenz said. He was reported missing on Sunday from another address associated with him in Weslaco, Texas, a city near McAllen, the police spokesman added.

Mosqueda arrived at the Border Patrol facility in a small white passenger car, parked in the facility’s parking lot, exited his vehicle with an assault rifle and opened fire, Saenz said. He was wearing a tactical vest and moved through the parking lot, continuing to fire at federal and local officers.

After Mosqueda was killed, officers found additional weapons in his vehicle, including another rifle and ammunition, Saenz said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/07/texas-border-patrol-shooting-mcallen/

(no paywall for me there)

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