By KATHY McCORMACK and PATRICK WHITTLE, Related Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a taking pictures close to the nation’s northern border in New Hampshire during which an individual is accused of firing a gun at a border patrol agent, who returned hearth and struck the topic.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation stated the incident occurred at about 1 a.m. Sunday morning in Pittsburg, a city of about 800 individuals on the border with Canada. The FBI didn’t present a reputation of the accused shooter, however stated the individual was receiving medical consideration at a hospital.
The border patrol agent, who the FBI additionally didn’t identify, was unhurt within the incident, an company spokesperson stated. The taking pictures occurred in a rural group that’s house to the state’s sole border crossing with the Canadian province of Quebec.
The incident happened close to the port of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Safety Commissioner Rodney Scott stated. The FBI’s Boston discipline workplace will probably be investigating the taking pictures together with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace within the District of New Hampshire, authorities stated.
“Preliminary reviews point out that the topic opened hearth on the agent at which period the agent returned hearth,” Scott stated in a press release. “CBP is cooperating absolutely with investigators.”
Officers with the FBI, CBP and U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace declined to supply extra element on the accused shooter or the circumstances that led to the alternate of gunfire. The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace stated in a press release that info can be launched if costs are introduced towards the individual.
Pittsburg is about 150 miles north of the state capital of Harmony. The city additionally borders Maine and Vermont in addition to Canada. The taking pictures happened close to a normally quiet crossing in the one city in New Hampshire that borders Canada. That worldwide border stretches for near 60 miles.
Whittle reported from Scarborough, Maine.
