Border Patrol agent kills illegal immigrant after migrant group attacks him

A Border Patrol agent fatally shot an illegal immigrant in Texas on Wednesday after the group she was with began to attack him, authorities and local news reports said.

The agent encountered the group in a culvert in Rio Bravo, just south or Laredo, about noon, and tried to arrest them. Multiple people in the group began to attack the agent, who was alone, with what were described as “blunt objects.”