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Emergency dispatch recordings capture Tuesday’s chaos. The audio, reporting “multiple gunshot victims,” begins at 5:41 a.m.

Excerpts from emergency dispatch audio

- By David Schutz and Austen Erblat

SUNRISE — Emergency dispatch recordings capture the chaos that come Tuesday, in the shooting that killed FBI special agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzen­berger and wounded three other agents.

The audio, which reports “multiple gunshot victims,” begins at 5:41 a.m. Tuesday and continues for less than an hour. It has been edited for length to focus on key moments in the recordings, which come from Broadcasti­fy.

Here’s a timeline of key moments in the day’s dramatic events:

Before 6 a.m.

Alfin, Schwartzen­berger and other agents set out to “execute a federal court-ordered search warrant in a crimes against children investigat­ion in Sunrise, Florida,” according to FBI Director Christophe­r Wray. The details of that case haven’t been released. The agents converged on a building at Water Trace Apartments, located at 10100 Reflection­s Boulevard West, between North Nob Hill Road and Hiatus Road. A neighbor at some point reports hearing many shots fired, about 50.

6:13 a.m.

Multiple shooting victims are reported in emergency dispatch exchanges, according to Broadcasti­fy.com, an online communicat­ions streaming service.

6:16 a.m.

One person in the apartment community gets on the radio to report that five people were injured, including an officer who was shot in the leg.

6:17 a.m.

Dispatch reports paramedics taking an FBI agent to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the shoulder.

6:23 a.m.

Fire rescue personnel request a helicopter to airlift at least one of the wounded.

7:21 a.m.

The Sunrise Police Department tweets that Nob Hill Road, a majority roadway near the community, is shut down. Police urge neighbors to stay in their homes, and keep reminding them to do so over the next two hours.

About 10 a.m.

The bodies of the two FBI agents, with American flags draped over them, are taken to the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office in Dania Beach.

11:10 a.m.

The FBI confirms two agents and says three other FBI agents were wounded. The suspect also is dead, the agency says.

1 p.m.

The FBI identifies Alfin and Schwartzen­berger as the two agents who died.

5:30 p.m.

A somber-looking special agent emerged from the FBI office in Miramar. The pain was evident on the face of Special Agent in Charge George Piro. “This is a very difficult day for the FBI,” Piro said. He said the FBI’s sympathy is with the families of the fallen. Piro described the special bond created at the FBI as family and said the the FBI family was mourning and feeling the loss of the agents. He said court-ordered search warrants are executed almost daily with the vast majority done without problems in part because of the excessive research done ahead of time. Each member of the FBI understand­s the sacrifice it take to protect the American people, Piro said.

“They were valuable members of the FBI,” Piro said of the agents who died.

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