Three Customs and Border Protection Marine Interdiction Agents exchanged gunfire with two people who were aboard the suspected smuggling ship, officials said.
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler died during a shootout Thursday off the Puerto Rico coast, authorities said. Two other U.S. officers were injured.
One of the people aboard the suspected smuggling ship was also killed, officials said. The second person on that vessel was arrested. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in testimony before a Senate committee that an Air and Marine Operations agent was killed and several other agents were “gravely wounded.”
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