The Vermont State Police are assisting federal authorities after a shooting involving a Border Patrol agent. They said it happened around 3:15 p.m. Monday on Interstate 91. The FBI is leading the investigation.

The fatal encounter occurred around 3:15 p.m. EST Monday on Interstate 91 in Coventry, about 13 miles south of the Canadian border.

A shooting involving a U.S. Border Patrol agent has closed Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont, near the border with Canada, state police said.

Agent David “Chris” Maland died in a shooting following a traffic stop, the FBI said. A second person killed in the incident was a German national in the country on a current visa, authorities said.

COVENTRY, Vt. (TNND) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed during a traffic stop in northern Vermont Monday was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force who worked security at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks, according to his family and officials.

The Vermont Border Patrol agent murdered when he stopped a migrant near the northern border has been identified as David C. Maland, The Post has learned. An agency veteran of nearly a decade,

A US Border Patrol agent was killed Monday in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said.

The Vermont State Police are assisting federal authorities after a shooting involving a Border Patrol agent. They said it happened around 3:15 p.m. Monday on Interstate 91. The FBI is leading the investigation.

The FBI is investigating a Border Patrol agent-involved shooting, according to a statement from the Vermont State Police.

The Vermont State Police is assisting in the investigation of a fatal shooting involving a U.S. Border Patrol agent that occurred on Interstate 91 in Coventry o

The agent's death Monday afternoon was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. The injured suspect was taken into custody after the violence on Interstate 91 in Coventry, about 20 miles (32 km) from the Canadian border, the FBI said in a statement.

A United States Border Patrol agent was gunned down during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Canadian border, officials have confirmed. It happened around 3:15 p.m. Monday on Interstate 91 in Coventry, 20 miles from the Northern border, according to the Department of Homeland Security.