The fatal encounter occurred around 3:15 p.m. EST Monday on Interstate 91 in Coventry, about 13 miles south of the Canadian border.
Agent David “Chris” Maland died in a shooting following a traffic stop, the FBI said. A second person killed in the incident was a German national in the country on a current visa, authorities said.
Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Canada that also left a suspect dead and another injured. U.S.
One suspect, a German national, is dead, and a second suspect, a U.S. citizen, suffered injuries, authorities said.
Vermont officials are mourning the loss of a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in the line of duty near the Canadian border on Monday.
"We had Border Patrol, I bet they had over 100 cars just from them," said Mike Kamerling, a Vermont State Police sergeant. "And then you had state police from both Vermont and New York and virtually every other law enforcement agency in the region.
Vermont State Sen. Russ Ingalls, an Essex County Republican, identified the agent shot to death at the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector as David Maland while speaking on the state senate floor Tuesday, according to a report from WPTZ, the NBC affiliate in Burlington, Vt.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed on Monday while on duty, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman said in a statement. "Today, January 20, a Border Patrol agent assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol's Swanton Sector was fatally shot in the line of duty," Huffman said.
Vermont State Police have completed the investigative report into the Shelburne police cruiser crash that killed 38-year-old cyclist Sean Hayes of Burlington. That report is now in the hands of the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agent David Maland, 44, was killed in a mysterious shooting while on the line of duty on Monday.
Jan. 9 at 12:37 p.m., Miles Hoisington, 70, no address listed, was arrested for unlawful trespass. Police say Hoisington was trespassing at the Varnum Memorial Library in Jeffersonville and refusing