CBP issues report on vehicle stop near Canada-Vermont border in which agent was fatally shot

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released a summary report on a vehicle stop in Vermont this winter in which an agent and motorist were killed in an exchange of gunfire.

A female U.S. citizen opened fire on agents after they asked her and her passenger, a male German citizen in possession of an H1B visa with unknown immigration status, to exit their vehicle for questioning when they were stopped less than seven miles from the U.S.-Canadian border on Jan. 20, according to a CBP report released Wednesday.

The woman shot and killed a agent while another agent shot her twice, once in her arm and once in her leg. The male passenger drew a firearm and failed to comply with the agent's order to stop, resulting in the agent shooting him twice in the chest, which killed him.

A week before the vehicle stop, the man and woman had checked into a hotel wearing black tactical gear, and at least one of them was openly carrying a firearm.

The female driver was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont on Feb. 6 for intentionally using a deadly weapon toward federal law enforcement and for the use and discharge of a firearm during an assault with a deadly weapon.

CBP Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing the incident while the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont are investigating it.