By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
An agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigation was shot and wounded in eastern Hidalgo County in Texas near the Mexican border early Tuesday morning while conducting surveillance, the Brownsville Herald reported.
The agent was working along State Highway 186 when he was shot once in the abdomen about 4 a.m., the paper reported.
The agent was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Details of the shooting were still scarce Tuesday morning.
“A special agent with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was shot this morning while conducting surveillance related to an ongoing criminal investigation in Hidalgo County, Texas,” ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said in a statement, according to the paper.
“The special agent was transported to a local hospital where he is currently undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound,” she added. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the special agent and his family.”
