Crime & Safety
Border Patrol Shooting Injures One, FBI Leads Probe
Customs says agents shot a man who was shooting at them. He suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The FBI is probing a shooting involving Border Patrol agents that left one person injured. it happened Wednesday afternoon on State Route 80 just north of Tombstone. A driver who fired at agents suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Customs officials say that two agents were at a checkpoint at the intersection of State Route 80 and State Route 82.
They were on foot when a black 2008 Dodge Dakota crashed through the checkpoint, the driver firing out the window as he sped by.
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The agents, fearing for their lives, returned fire, according to Customs officials.
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The driver - since identified as 76-year-old Gary Smith of Tombstone - was hit in the upper left arm. He was taken to a hospital in Tucson where he was treated and taken into custody.
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