A Border Patrol agent shot a person who was armed near the Canadian border in Pittsburg, N.H., early on Sunday, according to federal authorities.
The F.B.I. said in a statement that the person “allegedly fired at the agent” before “the agent returned fire” at about 1 a.m. The person, who was not named, is receiving medical care at a nearby hospital, said Kristen Setera, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I. Boston field office, which is investigating the shooting.
The agency is collecting “all relevant evidence from the scene,” Ms. Setera said. The U.S. attorney’s office for the District of New Hampshire is also investigating the shooting, she said.
Rodney Scott, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, which oversees Border Patrol, said in a statement on Monday that the Border Patrol agent was not injured after firing his weapon “during an encounter with an armed subject.”
Shootings involving federal immigration agents have been under scrutiny in recent weeks amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen and intensive care nurse, was killed last month in Minneapolis after he was shot by a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection officer.
Witness videos of that encounter appeared to show Mr. Pretti recording immigration officers on his phone and helping a civilian stand back up before several officers pinned him to the ground. His death came about two weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis.
Internal reports made public last week also showed that an ICE officer shot and killed another US. citizen in his car in South Texas in March, months before the deaths of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti. The man, Ruben Ray Martinez, was shot multiple times after he did not follow commands to exit his vehicle, according to internal ICE documents reviewed by The New York Times. Lawyers for his family have said that eyewitness accounts were not consistent with the government’s report.
Madeleine Ngo covers immigration and economic policy for The Times.
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