Seven-year-old Gabe Watson was startled awake by the sound of a flash-bang grenade exploding just outside his bedroom door.

Public Safety and Criminal Justice reporter Lauren Elizabeth Shults attended El Paso 2025 FBI Citizen's Academy.

The family of three was startled awake by the sound of several FBI SWAT agents storming their house with M-4 rifles. “In my mind, [I thought] whoever this is, they’re coming to kill us ...