Border Patrol agent shot and killed along northern border

A Border Patrol agent was shot and killed along the northern border Monday.

Details were sparse, but Vermont State Police said the shooting took place on Interstate 91 at 3:15 p.m.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman confirmed the death.

“Today, January 20, a Border Patrol agent assigned to the US Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector was fatally shot in the line of duty,” he said.

He said the shooting is “being swiftly investigated.”

Vermont police said the FBI was in charge of the probe.