
Disturbing message shooter, 27, wrote on side of car before opening fire on border agents near airport in ambush
The man, identified as 27-year-old Ryan Louis Mosqueda, was killed on Monday after shooting at officials with a gun near a Texas airport.
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The motive remains unclear.
Mosqueda was shot and killed by agents during the shootout, according to McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez.
A McAllen police officer was injured in the knee but will be fine, police said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted that in total, two officers and one Border Patrol employee was injured.
All three were taken to the hospital.
The shooter had been reported missing just hours earlier from Weslaco, Texas.
The car held more guns and ammunition, according to police, with what officials believe to be Latin writing inside of the vehicle.
He was also carrying a backpack with more ammunition, Rodriguez said.
On the side of a white Chevy photographed near the scene, the words "Cordis Die" was written in black spray paint across the driver side door.
Although it is unclear exactly what "Cordis Die" stood for in this circumstance, the term is featured in 2012's Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a popular shooter video game, and stands for "Heart Day" in Latin.
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In the game, it represents a militant anarchist terrorist organization that are the main antagonists of the story.
Game publisher Activision did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"The threats are always looming, they're always present, and incidents like these make us realize that we've always got to be on guard," Rodriguez said.
"I think I speak for everybody here, the world is much smaller than we think sometimes."
He was carrying a Michigan driver's license, police said, and had Michigan plates on his vehicle.
The shooting resulted in delays for flights at the McAllen Airport.
'I cannot tell you how many rounds were fired from the suspect, but there were many, many, many dozens of rounds fired by the suspect toward the building and toward agents in that building," Rodriguez said.
"We have no reason to believe at this point in time that there are any more threats in this area."
The FBI is now leading the investigation.
"It takes events like these to really wake you up and say, you know what we're really, really tiny in terms of the world," Rodriguez said.

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- The Guardian
Marco Rubio impostor reportedly using AI to contact multiple senior officials
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Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
Why FBI dropping Epstein case is bad news for Prince Andrew
The Duke of York is off the hook. After more than five years of him living under suspicion, fearing that knock at the door, the FBI has drawn a line under its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's network of friends and associates. It will release no more files nor pursue any 'third parties'. But there should be no popping of champagne corks at Royal Lodge, the Duke's Windsor home. Rarely has there been such a pyrrhic victory. For while the decision not to pursue those connected to Epstein may well be a weight off the Duke's shoulders, it changes nothing. In fact, one could argue the decision to close the case does not help him at all. If the Duke is innocent, as he has long protested, he would have been better served by the FBI either opening its files to the public or conducting a thorough investigation. Put him through the wringer and then exonerate him once and for all. This was exactly the Duke's aim when he insisted on pursuing the late Virginia Giuffre's high-profile civil case through the courts. He vehemently denied her allegations that he had raped and abused her three times when she was 17. Utterly convinced that he would clear his name, he was determined to take it to trial, to let a jury hear the evidence and decide his fate. In the event, Queen Elizabeth II had other ideas. After a bruising few months of legal tit-for-tat that saw a steady stream of sordid details dominate the news agenda, the Duke's mother finally had enough and demanded the matter was brought to a swift end. Ms Giuffre was given an out-of-court payout reported to be around £12 million. Stripped of his military titles, his charity affiliations and his pride, the Duke was cut adrift. The phrase 'innocent until proven guilty' had never seemed less apt. But in reality, the damage to the Duke's reputation had been inflicted a long, long time ago. From the moment Ms Giuffre told her story to a newspaper in 2011, it was hit by hammer blow after hammer blow. It was then that the world first saw the photograph of Prince Andrew with his arm wrapped around the waist of the teenage Ms Giuffre, who claimed to have been trafficked around the world by Epstein and his close friend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Ms Giuffre stopped short of alleging that she was forced to have sex with the Duke in London in March 2001. That would come later. But if there was any goodwill left for this errant royal, any shred of doubt about his accuser's version of events, that too appeared to evaporate following the Duke's disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019. More was to come. In January 2020, Geoffrey Berman, a US attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that the FBI and US prosecutors had asked to interview the Duke about Epstein but had received 'zero cooperation.' The Duke was said to be 'angry and bewildered' by the claims, insisting he had received no such request. Mr Berman returned to the theme two months later, asserting again that contrary to Prince Andrew's 'very public offer to cooperate' he had completely shut the door, raising the prospect that he could be subpoenaed to give evidence. Given the Duke's performance on Newsnight, no lawyer would have recommended he engage with the US authorities at that time. But with hindsight, given the FBI's declaration that it has no evidence warranting investigation, those closest to him will now be asking whether things could have been different. Legal team's litany of failings Similarly, Ms Giuffre's civil claim could have had a very different outcome. The Duke's close friends have criticised the litany of failings in the way his sex abuse case was managed by his own legal team and Buckingham Palace. The decision not to engage with Ms Giuffre's lawyers from the outset, to stonewall in a bizarre effort to avoid the inevitable service of legal papers, did him no favours. Ms Giuffre was left with no choice but to come at him publicly by filing a civil suit in which she claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke on three separate occasions in 2001, when she was 17, in London, New York and on Epstein's private Caribbean island. Had that been managed differently, not least given the latest development, there may have been closure, if not exoneration. Ms Giuffre's death by suicide in April drew a line under any lingering hope of redemption. The Duke has already lost everything. Reduced to pottering around the expansive grounds of his Windsor mansion, riding his horses and playing golf, he can barely raise his head above the parapet. His brand has never been more toxic. For a senior member of the Royal family who so clearly loved his once lofty status, it has been a punishing lesson. He can barely dabble in even the most low-profile business venture these days without someone being spooked by his association. The most recent scandal, involving his business links to Yang Tengbo, an alleged Chinese spy, did nothing to move the dial. One thing is sure. Given the price he has already paid, the FBI's decision not to pursue an investigation will be perceived by his closest circle of friends and advisors as an exoneration. They will want it recognised in the form of a public apology. They may even believe that he should be reinstated to his former position within the Royal family. That will never happen. This latest, and perhaps final development, will mean that the whole Epstein show finally moves on. But it is far too late for the Duke, for whom moving on has never been such a distant prospect.


Daily Mirror
2 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
Trump fears pal Ghislaine Maxwell 'could speak about his Epstein friendship'
Sources say the US leader has grown increasingly concerned ahead of his Department of Justice's controversial decision to close its investigation into Jefffey Epstein without charging any of his high-profile associates that Ghislaine Maxwell will now speak out Donald Trump has grown increasingly anxious that Prince Andrew's pal Ghislaine Maxwell may break her silence and reveal details of his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Sources say the US leader grew increasingly concerned ahead of his Department of Justice's controversial decision to close its investigation into the disgraced financier without charging any of his high-profile associates. The abrupt announcement that the FBI's Epstein inquiry had concluded, coming just weeks after Elon Musk named Trump as appearing in the Epstein files, has provoked widespread anger among victims and campaigners. But behind closed doors, sources have told that it has also sparked fresh panic inside Trump's camp. The former socialite, currently serving a 20-year sentence for procuring girls for Epstein to abuse, is furious at having been made what she views as a "scapegoat" for a much wider circle of powerful men. Maxwell, who had close personal ties to Epstein for decades, is understood to feel abandoned by many of the elite figures who once moved in his orbit, and whose reputations have remained intact. One source told The Mirror: 'Ghislaine knows more about Donald Trump's relationship with Epstein than almost anyone alive. And Trump knows that, too. She knows everything about how the two men partied together and how they grew to become best friends for years. With Epstein now dead, Donald knows only that Ghislaine hold such knowledge of the two men. What else has she got to lose?' The president's concern is that Maxwell may now decide to speak in an effort to restore her reputation or retaliate against those she believes left her to take the fall. While Trump has denied any wrongdoing and insists he severed ties with Epstein years before the financier's 2019 arrest, the pair were known to socialise in the early 2000s, including at Mar-a-Lago. Maxwell, who is currently being held at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, attended events at several of Trump's properties during the same period. The Mirror previously reported how the caged British socialite was considering asking her old pal, the president, for a pardon, as he is in the White House. Trump was a long-time associate of Epstein and Maxwell and was famously videotaped at a party discussing the appearance of young girls who were present during a conversation with the late paedophile. During his first term in the White House, he was concerned by a US newspaper story in July 2020 about her arrest. It quoted a friend of Epstein as describing Maxwell as believing herself to be "protected by the intelligence communities she and [Epstein] helped with information ... by Prince Andrew, President Clinton and even by President Trump," whom they described as having been "well-known to be an acquaintance of her and Epstein's". According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's book about Trump, Confidence Man, the US leader tackled his advisers about the story at an Oval Office meeting. "You see that article in the Post today that mentioned me?" he asked aides. When they didn't react, Trump pressed them further, asking: "She say anything about me?" Maxwell, 63, Oxford-educated and the daughter of crooked tycoon Robert Maxwell, was once a fixture in the same Palm Beach and New York elite circles as Trump. The president has acknowledged knowing her for years, and the pair were frequently seen together at high society events in the 1990s and 2000s. When Maxwell was first arrested, Trump's response raised eyebrows. "I just wish her well," he said during a White House briefing. "I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they [Maxwell and Epstein] lived in Palm Beach," he added. "But I wish her well, whatever it is." The remarks had many questioning just how deep their connection ran. The FBI's decision to end its Epstein probe came as Attorney General Pam Bondi, appointed by the president, faces growing scrutiny over contradictory statements she has made about the case. In February, she confirmed the existence of a non-public list of Epstein's alleged clients, saying there were 'tens of thousands of videos and documents' still held by the FBI, some of which allegedly showed 'horrific crimes involving minors.' However, on Monday, the Department of Justice stated that it had concluded its review and had 'no further information' to share with the public. The abrupt reversal prompted questions for the White House. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Bondi, saying: 'She was referring to the entirety of all of the paperwork, all of the paper, in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes… and I'll let her speak to that.' The contradiction has only intensified criticism that the government has failed Epstein's victims, many of whom have accused the justice system of protecting the powerful while offering only one conviction.