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...marshals in the skies. Since then, the U.S. has hired thousands (the precise number is classified) to help prevent another terrorist attack. None has had to fire a weapon in the line of duty post-9/11 until Wednesday, when a federal air marshal shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen who authorities say claimed he had a bomb, on a plane in a Miami airport...
...According to a witness, Alpizar suddenly ran off of American Airlines Flight 924, which had stopped off in Miami en route from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando. He was pursued by two air marshals who were aboard the flight while his wife, Anne Buechner, tried to explain that Alpizar was ill and had not taken his medication. "When the incident began and he uttered something to the effect that he had a bomb, the federal air marshals came out of cover," Jim Bauer, special agent in charge of the Miami field office of the Federal Air Marshal Service, told TIME. "They...