Deputy Chief Robert Luna surrounded by various branches of law enforcement speaks at a news conference to confirm the events of Thursday evening Feb. 16, 2012 which resulted in the death of an ICE agent at the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building in Long Beach. The FBI says an immigration agent shot and injured another agent and was then killed by a third colleague in the federal building in Long Beach. FBI Special Agent Steven Martinez says the shooting occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday. (AP Photo/Brittany Murray, Long Beach Press Telegram)SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER,Associated Press
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – A federal immigration agent shot and seriously wounded a co-worker during a Thursday evening workplace confrontation before another agent pulled his weapon and shot the gunman to death inside a Southern California federal building, the FBI said.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot on the seventh floor of the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building in Long Beach, about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
The 5:54 p.m. Thursday shootings were described by the FBI’s Steven Martinez as a case of “workplace violence involving two federal agents in their office space.” He offered no other details about what led to the initial shooting.
But the Los Angeles Times, citing multiple law enforcement sources, reported Friday that the initial shots were fired by an agent at his supervisor during an unspecified dispute.