On August 9, 1979, Special Agent Charles W. Elmore was tragically killed in the line of duty at the FBI office in El Centro, California. Elmore, along with his colleague Special Agent J. Robert Porter, was shot by an assailant who had entered the office under the pretense of discussing a Freedom of Information Act request. The assailant, armed with a shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol, opened fire on the agents. Agent Porter was the first to confront the shooter and was fatally wounded during the
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