Topic: Border Patrol

Report: Death of Border Patrol Agent May Have Been Friendly Fire

U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol the border fence near where a U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie was shot and killed, and one other was shot and injured, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Naco, Ariz.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

After an incident that left one U.S. Border Patrol agent dead and another in the hospital, the speculation was that they had been killed by armed criminals, but now investigators are hinting that the two officers may have shot each other. 

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