A Border Patrol agent fatally shot a suspected illegal immigrant encountered on the Arizona-Mexico border Monday night after the federal agent was stabbed several times, according to a senior federal official in the region.
“Earlier tonight a Tucson Sector #BorderPatrol Agent was attacked and stabbed multiple times while on patrol near Nogales,” Roy Villareal, the chief of Border Patrol’s Tucson, Arizona, sector, tweeted early Tuesday.
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