By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A Border Patrol agent was shot during a routine traffic stop Friday night near the U.S.-Mexico Border in Texas.
The agent’s partner returned fire, killing the suspect at the scene, ABC News reports.
The two agents and a deputy with the Kinney County Sheriff’s Department had pulled over a car near Brackettville, Texas, when a passenger opened fire.
The agent was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
CBP did not identify the agents or the suspects by name, but said the gunman was a 25-year-old man. The driver was a 32-year-old woman. Both are U.S. citizens.
“The agents and sheriff’s deputy requested medical assistance and rendered first aid, however the passenger of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene,” CBP said in a statement Saturday. “The injured agent was taken to a local hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening gunshot wound, and later transported by AirFlight to a San Antonio hospital.”
