A Border Patrol agent is dead and another has been wounded after gunfire erupted in Arizona, along a known drug corridor near the U.S.-Mexico border.
The officer who was injured has been airlifted to the hospital, and word is he has non-life threatening wounds. The circumstances surrounding the shooting, not clear yet, as the search for the gunman continues. A Border Patrol spokesperson tells FOX News Radio that it happened near Naco, Arizona.
The two agents were assigned to the Brian Terry Station that was just recently dedicated in honor of the Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed almost two years ago.
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