Would-Be Gunman Dead After Shootout With Police In Dallas

February 3, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, Police tape blocks of crime scene in the 7th Ward at the intersection of Annette and North Villere streets where a man was murdered by gunfire.
(Photo by Julie Dermansky/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Brian Isaack Clyde, a 22-year-old clad in combat gear and armed with a rifle, died in a shootout with the police near a federal building in downtown Dallas, according to the Daily Beast.

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were reportedly searching for a device near the federal courthouse.

Clyde was reportedly shot and killed before he could get off any shots.

Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox snapped an extreme close-up of Clyde before police shot him.

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