Border Patrol Agent Killed in Vermont near Canadian Border

A Swanton Sector Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop 20 miles south of the Vermont-Canada border. A suspect in the agent’s death was killed, and another suspect was wounded during the incident.

The Associated Press reported that an FBI agent disclosed the shooting that took place on Monday along Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont. Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman called the shooting of the Border Patrol agent a “line-of-duty” death.

The as-yet unidentified Border Patrol agent conducted a traffic stop on the highway 20 miles from the Canadian border with Vermont. Circumstances about the shooting have not been released by the FBI or U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol.

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