- April 25, 2024
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The Flagler County Sheriff's Office on Feb. 3 offered condolences on the Feb. 2 shooting death of FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin and Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger.
Alfin, 36, is the son of Grand Living Realty Broker Associate and Flagler County Education Foundation Executive Committee President David Alfin.
"These agents spent their lives protecting the most vulnerable among us, the children. They are heroes and we honor their ultimate sacrifice."
— Flagler County Sheriff's Office
"FCSO sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Special Agents Daniel Alfin & Laura Schwartzenberger of the FBI," the agency said in a Facebook post from its official account. "SA Alfin's father, David Alfin, is a local leader in Flagler County, and our prayers are with his family during this difficult time. These agents spent their lives protecting the most vulnerable among us, the children. They are heroes and we honor their ultimate sacrifice."
Daniel Alfin and Schwartzenberger were killed when they assembled with other law enforcement officers to serve a search warrant at a suspect's home in Sunrise in an investigation of violent crimes against children, according to George Piro, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office.
The suspect saw the FBI agents and opened fire from inside the house, striking five of them and killing Special Agent Alfin and Special Agent Schwartzenberger.
"Our sympathies are with their families and loved ones. We, the FBI Family, share in their loss," Piro said in a Feb. 2 press conference.
The three agents who were injured are in stable condition. The suspect is dead.
Alfin joined the FBI in 2009 and was assigned to the Miami office in 2017, working to investigate crimes against children, Piro said. He is survived by a wife and child.
Schwartzenberger, 43, is survived by her husband and two children.
"It takes an incredibly special person to answer the call and do the heroic work of an FBI special agent. It requires self-sacrifice. It requires putting oneself in harm’s way, not once, but again and again," Piro said. "Dan and Laura left home this morning to carry out the mission they signed up for and loved to do—to keep the American people safe. They were valuable members of our team. They will forever be heroes. We will always honor their ultimate sacrifice."
FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement that Special Agents Alfin and Schwartzenberger "exemplified heroism today in defense of their country."
"The FBI will always honor their ultimate sacrifice and will be forever grateful for their bravery," Wray said. "We continue to stand by our FBI Family, and the families of these special agents, in the days to come, bringing every resource we can to get through this together."
