FBI spokeswoman Jeanette Harper said in a statement Monday that both agents were found late Saturday night in a culvert near Van Horn and that both had traumatic head injuries. Harper said Rogelio Martinez died early Sunday. A CBP spokesman said Martinez and his partner were taken to a hospital, where Martinez died. Chris Cabrera, a spokesman for a border patrol agents union, the National Border Patrol Council, told The Associated Press that the two agents appeared to have been struck in the head with a rock or rocks. The Border Patrol website lists 38 agents, not including Martinez, who have died since late 2003.

Source: National Post November 21, 2017 06:33 UTC