https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13952536/special-agent-daniel-alfin-sunrise-florida/
FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin spent more than a decade busting child predators and bringing justice to their victims until he was tragically killed in his line of work.
The 36-year-old officer was killed in the early hours of February 2 while serving a search warrant at an apartment complex in South Florida.
Who was special agent Daniel Alfin and what happened to him?
Daniel Alfin was an FBI agent who spent more than a decade on the force fighting child abuse.
He started as a special agent in 2009 and was previously based at FBI headquarters, where he handled major cases of violent crimes against children.
David Alfin told The Washington Post that his son came from a family dedicated to public service - Daniel's older brother worked in law enforcement in South Florida, and his younger brother teaches at the US Military Academy in New York.
“I couldn’t be more proud of Daniel and his brothers,” David Alfin said.
On February 2, 2021 Alfin was killed at around 6am as he and FBI special agent Laura Schwartzenberger tried to serve a search warrant to David Huber at an apartment complex in Sunrise, Florida.
But when Alfin and Schwartzenberger arrived, Huber immediately opened fire at the agents, killing them.
Huber was the target of the federal search warrant in the child pornography case that had led the agents to the deadly raid.
In a statement released the day after his death, FBI Director Christopher Wray posthumously praised Alfin, whom he said "exemplified heroism" before his tragic end.
President Joe Biden also paid tribute to Alfin and Schwartzenberger the evening of the shooting, saying that the special agents "paid a hell of a price" for putting their lives on the line.
"My heart aches for the families," he said in a press briefing on February 2.
"I have not had an opportunity, nor will I try today to contact them but they put their lives on the line, and it's a hell of a price to pay."
David Huber was a 55-year-old IT expert who was wanted by the FBI in a "violent crimes against children" case.
According to public records, he ran a computer consulting business, had a pilot’s license, was married for 16 years before divorcing in 2016.
The divorcee and father-of-two lived alone.
On the morning of February 2, Huber opened fire on a group of FBI agents after monitoring them on a doorbell camera as they approached his home.
He shot dead Alfin and Schwartzenberger when they arrived to carry out a search warrant for the case.
Huber is believed to have ambushed them through the unopened door with a hail of bullets from an assault-style rifle, law enforcement sources told the Miami Herald.