A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said.

A United States Border Agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Northern border, Fox News has confirmed.

"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.

Fallen Border Patrol agent David "Chris" Maland was honored Thursday with a procession attended by hundreds of law enforcement officers.

Five people faced a judge on Tuesday after they were accused of helping the man who allegedly shot St. Johnsbury police captain Jason Gray last month. Six of the suspects were arrested by Vermont State Police in the past week,

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.

Vermont State Police are investigating the death of a Brattleboro man Thursday morning, who was an inmate at the state prison in Springfield.

Vermont State Police responded to the Exit 20 ramp on I-91 Southbound Monday night, after a reported crash involving a police cruiser. It happened just after 6 p.m. Police said Jacob Fox was on duty.

David "Chris" Maland, the U.S. Border Patrol agent allegedly killed by a German national during a traffic stop near the Vermont-Canada border on Monday, was an Air Force veteran.

Homicide numbers in Vermont have risen in recent years to levels not seen since the late ‘90s, and experts say much of the violence is fueled by a drugs-for-guns pipeline that leads to Massachusetts and other urban centers.

The FBI has revealed little information about Monday’s fatal shooting of Agent David “Chris” Maland during a traffic stop. A German national who was in the U.S. on a current visa was also killed in the exchange of gunfire,