DERBY LINE, Vt.– A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot at three suspects early today after being assaulted on a residential street near the U.S.-Canada border.
The agency says an officer on routine patrol spotted the three people — two male and one female — walking in Derby Line, Vt., at about 2:15 a.m.
Border Patrol spokesman Mark Henry says the agent, who was not identified, spoke with the three people briefly before they began assaulting him.
He says they knocked him down, there was a struggle and one person started punching him. Henry says the agent became concerned for his life, pulled his gun and fired two shots.
A male and female suspect were taken into custody. The third person fled into Canada. Neither person in custody was wounded. Agents don’t know if the suspect who fled into Canada was hit.
Henry said he couldn’t release the names of those in custody and didn’t know their nationalities.
In Montreal, RCMP Cpl. Elaine Lavergne said police on the Canadian side of the border were searching for the missing person.
Derby Line is a series of residential streets and buildings that straddle the border.
In October, the RCMP arrested more than 40 people trying to enter Canada illegally through Derby Line.
In August, a Border Patrol agent in Alburgh, Vt., fired his weapon at a car that had illegally entered the United States after the driver tried to run him over. There have been no arrests in that case.
At the time, Border Patrol officials said they believed it was the first time one of their agents had fired a weapon at the border in the northeastern United States.
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