Earlier this morning a man with a rifle fired shots at a McAllen, Texas border patrol annex. Police responded and the shooter was killed.
At about 6 a.m. local time, officers from the McAllen Police Department responded to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s McAllen Station after reports of a shooting, Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said.
No federal officers were injured in the shooting, but a local police officer was injured in the knee, either by a bullet or shrapnel, he said.
The authorities found other weapons in the man’s car, which was in a parking lot. The chief said there was spray paint writing on the vehicle that officers could not decipher.
Fox News is reporting that the shooter fired at border patrol agents as they were showing up for work.
An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday.
Bill Melugin has some photos from the scene. These are pretty gruesome so not for everyone.
BREAKING: Three federal & TX law enforcement sources tell me an active shooter with a rifle & tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, TX this morning. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing him. I’m… pic.twitter.com/xL3qw5G6OW
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 7, 2025
CNN reports the shooter has been identified:
McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez identified the suspected shooter as 27-year-old Ryan Luis. Rodriguez said at a news conference that Luis was connected to a Michigan address and a vehicle with Michigan tags.
“He was loaded for bear,” the chief said, adding that “another rifle and other assaultive weapons” were found in the suspect’s car. Rodriguez said the suspect was able to shoot dozens of rounds of ammunition before quickly being killed by federal agents…
Rodriguez said Luis was reported missing from the nearby town of Weslaco, Texas, early Monday. The chief would not elaborate on who reported Luis missing.
It’s still to early to have a clear idea of the motive for this crime but the FBI is investigating. What we do know is that this appears to have been planned in advance. There was also a hint spray painted on the outside of his car. One report I saw said there was graffiti which was indecipherable, but it turns out it was a reference to a video game.
The suspect’s vehicle was spray-painted with the phrase “Cordis Die,” which appears in a “Call of Duty” video game, according to a local law enforcement official and a source familiar with the matter.
“Cordis Die” means day of the heart. Here’s what the Call of Duty wiki has to say:
Cordis Die is a populist revolutionary movement and the main antagonistic faction in Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Strike Team.
Google’s AI summary says “In the game, Cordis Die is led by Raul Menendez, who uses the movement to incite global unrest and violence. While it has a presence on social media in the game’s universe, with a YouTube channel and large subscriber base, this is all part of the fictional narrative.” There’s a video containing scenes from the game and it’s basically an anarchist uprising which results in the White House in flames.
So it sounds like the shooter was a gamer and was identifying himself with a specific mission which, in the fictional world of the game (released in 2014), took place in June 2025.
Back in the real world, the more worrisome part of this may be that it was the second attack at a border patrol facility just a few days. The earlier attack also sounds like an ambush.
The shooting took place outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement…
Around 11 p.m. on the Fourth of July, officers from the Alvarado Police Department responded to a call about a suspicious person outside the detention center and saw someone who appeared to have a gun, the sheriff’s office said.
One officer tried to talk to the person and then several other people opened fire on the officer, who was wounded in the neck and flown to a hospital.
The group tried to run for it but they were arrested. As many as 15 people had slashed the tires of border patrol vehicles and destroyed security cameras. But CBS News is reporting only 8 people were arrested in connection with the shooting.
A federal law enforcement source told CBS News Saturday that local police arrested eight people. The official said some of those apprehended were wearing body armor.
The source told CBS News that early reports indicate that more than a dozen masked individuals dressed in black arrived at the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the parking lot.
The individuals launched fireworks in an apparent effort to lure law enforcement, the source said.
Obviously these attacks aren’t identical but they are similar. Both involved people in tactical gear shooting at ICE facilities, one on Friday and one on Monday morning. We’ll have to wait and see what the FBI turns up in these investigations, but whether these attacks were connected or not is really beside the point. The fact remains that there is a violent fringe of the left that wants blood. David wrote a bit about that this morning.
A few months ago, the left’s violence was aimed mostly at Tesla dealerships. You had a bunch of lone wolves coming out of the woodwork to set cars on fire and vandalize dealerships. Elon Musk was also getting a lot of death threats. But with Musk no longer leading DOGE, that violence has moved on to another target of the left: the border patrol.
Two members of law enforcement have been shot in three days. It seems like pure luck neither of them was killed. Will the death of Ryan Luis give other potential attackers second thoughts about carrying out similar attacks? We’ll have to wait and see.
Meanwhile, how many media outlets are going to connect the dots on these attacks? The media never hesitates to blame violence on a “climate of hate” when it can blame the right for that climate. Will it do the same now?
Several people are in custody after a police officer was shot outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4th.
“Police officers responded to a call of a suspicious person outside the center. When they arrived, they saw someone that appeared to have… pic.twitter.com/LhSsvSX9XB
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) July 7, 2025
