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Suspect Allegedly Points Rifle at Off-Duty ICE Officer, Gets Shot Dead
Breitbart ^ | January 2, 2026 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 01/02/2026 12:05:45 PM PST by Morgana

A man is dead after allegedly pointing a rifle at an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, California, Wednesday around 10:45 p.m.

ABC 7 reported the off-duty officer was inside his apartment and heard what he thought to be gunshots outside. The officer grabbed his gun and went outside to investigate and came upon a suspect who was allegedly holding a long gun.

The officer identified himself as law enforcement, at which point the suspect allegedly pointed the rifle at him.

An exchange of gunfire occurred, after which the officer went back inside to retrieve body armor and call backup. LAPD officers arrived on scene to find the suspect deceased.

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Going for the Darwin of the Year award and it's only January 2
1 posted on 01/02/2026 12:05:45 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Seems reasonable to me.


2 posted on 01/02/2026 12:08:27 PM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Morgana

*LOVE* a story with a happy ending!


3 posted on 01/02/2026 12:08:41 PM PST by Spacetrucker
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To: Morgana

Fantastic job!


4 posted on 01/02/2026 12:08:55 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Spacetrucker

Taking out the trash...


5 posted on 01/02/2026 12:09:22 PM PST by BB62
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To: Morgana

Good shootin’ Tex!!!


6 posted on 01/02/2026 12:10:55 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Morgana

There are certain times when you let your gun do the talking. Some questions will remain unanswered: did the gunman know an Ice Agent lived there? Who told him about that? Was he attempting a Hit for a payout? Who is the gunman’s weapon registered to? Etc, etc.


7 posted on 01/02/2026 12:20:43 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Morgana

And, ICE officer indicted for “murder” in 3, 2, . . .


8 posted on 01/02/2026 12:25:15 PM PST by MCSETots (Le )
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To: lee martell

It was New Year’s Eve.


9 posted on 01/02/2026 12:26:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Morgana

Hopefully there’s vid
There will still be a st!tsh0w, bec he’s ICE, but vid would be so much nicer.


10 posted on 01/02/2026 12:26:55 PM PST by fastrock
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To: Spacetrucker

RE: *LOVE* a story with a happy ending!

Yes.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun
-—John Lennon, on the White Album.

Note:
The phrase was inspired by an advertisement in the May 1968 issue of The American Rifleman, the magazine of the U.S. National Rifle Association (NRA). The magazine belonged to The Beatles’ producer, George Martin, who had it in the studio at Abbey Road.
John Lennon found the phrase “a fantastic, insane thing to say”. He interpreted a “warm gun” as one that had just been fired, seeing the slogan as a darkly ironic commentary on American gun culture.
—American Songwriter Magazine and Wikipedia.


11 posted on 01/02/2026 12:27:55 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: lee martell
There are certain times when you let your gun do the talking. Some questions will remain unanswered: did the gunman know an Ice Agent lived there? Who told him about that? Was he attempting a Hit for a payout? Who is the gunman’s weapon registered to? Etc, etc.

I watched my local news...

I do not think that the gunman was targeting the federal agent...He started shooting at nobody in particular...Then the off-duty agent came out of his apartment to find out what is going on...

Maybe the gunman had some mental problems...

Northridge is a part of City of Los Angeles...San Fernando Valley...There is a California State University in that area...No, it is not a sketchy neighborhood...

12 posted on 01/02/2026 12:30:52 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: Morgana

All those demonstrators and Adam Schiff, Newsom, Padilla, . Eric Swalwell, Mayor Karen Bass, JB Pritzker, Tim Walz, Mayor Brandon Johnson and many TV pundits have said ICE agents should not be allowed to wear masks.

Defenders said some agents have been followed home where their spouses and children were there. Others were identified and doxxed using facial recognition used by woke tech nerds to help Antifa and the anti-ICE zealots to target the agents and once to stay up all night banging pots and pans and yelling through megaphones to keep the agents awake all night.

The death threats are the result of Democrats who have not been brought to justice as of today.


13 posted on 01/02/2026 12:33:57 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: L.A.Justice

“I watched my local news”

And I am sure you got the unbiased truth of the matter s/


14 posted on 01/02/2026 12:35:48 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: Morgana

Spreading cheer.


15 posted on 01/02/2026 12:44:41 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( )
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To: Morgana

Well...don’t do that then.


16 posted on 01/02/2026 12:45:41 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: BenLurkin

That might explain it. Since I was but a wee Lad back in Michigan, I have always heard news shows warning people not to shoot up in the air because it was New Years Eve. At the family home, we were ordered to stay away from windows at that hour, maybe even till sunrise on Jan. 1st.

Yet, there have always a few who used New Years Eve as a good excuse to go outside and make some noise. January is too late in the season to hunt Deer and too early in the season to fish for Smelt or Whitefish, so you have a lot of Sportsmen feeling a little bored.


17 posted on 01/02/2026 12:51:23 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

It’s for the city folks who keep their firearm in a shoebox under their bed, and New Year’s Eve is the only chance they ever get to shoot it.


18 posted on 01/02/2026 1:00:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yep. More than likely. That tattered old shoe box being the
“Gun Safe” for the last 25 years.


19 posted on 01/02/2026 1:01:59 PM PST by lee martell
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To: L.A.Justice

The Democrats and the rest of the wokies have studiously ignored mental illness as though it did not exist. It’s part of their delusion but also of their voter recruitment strategy.


20 posted on 01/02/2026 1:24:55 PM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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