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Gunman who killed agent on Amtrak train identified

Services for DEA agent scheduled for Friday in Tucson.

amtrak train shooting 100421 Police say a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent and another person were killed during a shootout on an Amtrak train that stopped in downtown Tucson on Monday morning.
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Officials have identified the armed passenger who died in a gunfight after fatally shooting a federal agent inside an Amtrak train in Tucson on Monday.

The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson said Thursday that 26-year-old Darrion Taylor was shot by officers several times.

The shooting occurred when a regional task force of Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local police were inspecting baggage on the train while it was stopped in downtown Tucson.

Authorities say Taylor opened fire when DEA special agent Michael Garbo and another agent tried to question him.

Garbo was killed.

The other agent and a Tucson police officer were also wounded.

The train they were screening had left from Los Angeles and was destined for New Orleans.

Services for Garbo are scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at Calvary Chapel in Tucson.

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