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SUNRISE, Fla. – April Evans lived in the Sunrise apartment complex, just one floor above David Lee Huber, the man the FBI says killed two of his special agents and then himself on Tuesday.
She remembers feeling “instant red flags” when she met him.
“Just being in your space for 10 seconds or more, it was clear that there was some kind of disconnection,” says Evans.
She says that Huber, 55, was lonely and did not speak to neighbors, that he would ignore them if they tried.
“What struck me as odd about him is that Mr. Huber would never speak,” recalls Evans. “And I don’t care how close you were to him, if you tried to talk to him, he normally wouldn’t, he would just look the other way, speed up, walk a little faster, or he would just kind of mumble an answer, kind of murmur under your voice and keep walking. “
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When Evans heard about what happened on Tuesday morning at the Water Terrace apartment complex, he said he knew who it was before it was confirmed.
“I said, ‘My God … it was that guy down there!” she said. “I knew who it was before I saw his picture.”
Sources say Huber, a computer consultant, was armed with a rifle, ready to shoot and kill, while watching FBI agents through his Ring camera.
They were at their ground-level unit to carry out a warrant ordered by a federal court in a case of violent crimes against children.
When the agents entered, Huber opened fire, killing special agents Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, and Daniel Alfin, 36, and wounding three others.
The injured agents were not identified, but the two who were hospitalized with several gunshot wounds were released. The other was treated on the spot.
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Records show that Huber divorced in 2016 after 16 years of marriage, and that he was the father of three children. He had traffic tickets, but he had no criminal record. The Federal Aviation Administration reports that Huber received his commercial pilot certificate on May 23, 1994.
Evans also told a story a few years ago, when residents of the apartment complex were told that an exterminator should be examining their units for regular maintenance. When the exterminator entered his apartment, he looked shaken.
“I asked him if he was okay,” recalls Evans, “and he said, ‘My God, the guy down there’ – and there was just one guy down there [Huber].
“[The exterminator] said: ‘The guy downstairs had a gun in my face when I entered the apartment. He was there with a gun in my face. ‘”
More than 48 hours after Tuesday’s tragic incident, the apartment complex was still an active crime scene on Thursday, with agents still searching for evidence, trying to figure out how the operation went wrong.
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In the distance, the cameras at Local 10 could see bullet holes all over the house, a vision of how violent the encounter was.
Schwartzenberger and Alfin specialize in cyber crimes, specifically against children.
Preparations for the funeral are being made for the two dead agents, who are being remembered as heroes in the South Florida community and beyond.
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