Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said the death occurred ‘in the line of duty’.

Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been fatally shot in northern Vermont. The acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the agent was killed Monday in the line of duty.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement the agent was assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol's Swanton Sector, which covers the border shared by upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, eastern Ontario and Quebec.

The Border Patrol agent was reportedly shot dead by a suspect referred to as a "visa overstay,” who has also been killed.

New details on a deadly gunfight between a U.S. Border Patrol agent and the occupants of a car stopped on a highway just south of the Canadian border names the agent killed as David “Chris” Maland and the civilian who died as a German national legally in the U.

An investigation was underway on Tuesday near the United States’ border with Canada, where an agent was fatally shot “in the line of duty,” authorities said

COVENTRY, Vt. — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said. The death was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington.

A US Customs and Border Protection vehicle sits parked near the Derby Line Stanstead Border Crossing station near the US-Canada in Derby Line, Vermont on January 14, 2025. For more than two ...

The Quebec government is bolstering its law enforcement presence along the province’s border with Vermont, New Hampshire and New York — a response, one top official said, to calls by U.S ...

Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar, said the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent on a highway just south of Quebec on Monday is another sign there needs to be more focus on the U.

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