A Border Patrol agent stationed out of the Tucson Sector in Arizona was shot on duty and taken to a local hospital early Tuesday morning, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
The unnamed agent was shot around 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time while working just south of Arivaca, which sits 10 miles north of the Mexico border.
CBP has not shared additional information about the agent’s medical condition or which hospital he or she is being treated at.
The Department of Homeland Security agency did confirm “several subjects in the area were taken into custody.”
The incident is being treated as an active shooting investigation by the FBI and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
CBP was not able to provide the number of agent-involved shootings that have taken place since the beginning of fiscal 2018, which started Oct. 1, 2017.
As of March 31, CBP reported 179 assault incidents against its Border Patrol agents and 312 assaults.
However, an Intercept report in April concluded that in one February 2017 incident, CBP counted attacks against seven agents as 126 total assaults.
