Vermont border patrol agent shot and killed: Latest updates NECN [Video]

Authorities on Tuesday are continuing to investigate the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent that also left a suspect dead and another injured on a Vermont highway near Canada, authorities said.

The agent’s death Monday afternoon was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. He was identified Tuesday as David C. Maland, who was assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector.

The injured suspect was taken into custody after the violence on Interstate 91 in Coventry, about 20 miles from the Canadian border, the FBI said in a statement.

The bureau added Tuesday that the suspect who died was a German national in the U.S. on a visa. Neither suspect was identified.

Coventry is close to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Newport Station, part of the Swanton Sector that encompasses Vermont and parts of New York and New Hampshire. The area includes 295 miles of international boundary with Canada.

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