Border Patrol agent’s death was likely a result of friendly fire, investigators say
Federal investigators have concluded that the fatal shooting of one U.S. Border Patrol agent and the wounding of another in southern Arizona this week was likely the result of friendly fire, according to law enforcement officials.
The circumstances surrounding the friendly fire incident remain unclear, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
A spokesman for the FBI declined to comment.
The slain agent, Nicholas J. Ivie, 30, was responding to a sensor alarm in the desert 100 miles southeast of Tucson on Tuesday at the time of the shooting. At least two other agents were involved in the incident, including one who sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting and another who was uninjured.
Ivie, a native of Utah, was the first border agent to be fatally shot in nearly two years.
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