FIRST ON FOX: A man was killed Wednesday after he fled through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint and led authorities on a vehicle chase and shootout in Texas.
The incident happened at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint in the Big Bend Sector between El Paso and Van Horn, a remote area.
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The shooting involved Border Patrol agents and troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).
The chase began when the unidentified man fled the checkpoint on Interstate 10 near Sierra Blanca. He crashed his car before firing at authorities, sources told Fox News.
Law enforcement officials returned fire and killed him. Border Patrol officers and DPS troopers returned fire, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources told Fox News.
No officers or agents were injured, sources said. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security, CBP and DPS.
In January, a man suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants was shot by federal officers during a gunfire exchange in Arizona.
Patrick Gary Schlegel, 34, fled from authorities on foot and allegedly shot at a CBP helicopter and at agents, Heith Janke, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Phoenix Division, said at the time.
Schlegal, a U.S. citizen from Arizona, underwent surgery and survived. No one else was harmed, authorities said.
