Border Patrol Agent Killed by Drug Runners

Three US Border Patrol agents were responding to a ground sensor alarm, along the border when they came under fire.

One of the agents, Nicholas Avie, thirty, was shot and killed, and a second wounded, by suspected drug runners.

They were five miles inside the border, near Naco, Arizona, when the shooting started.

This marks the fourth Border Patrol death, in that area, along the Mexico/Arizona border, over the last two years.

Arizona's Governor Janet Brewer released a statement saying, "Flags will be lowered in honor of the slain agent. Elected officials will vow to find those responsible. Arizonans and Americans will grieve, and they should. But this ought not only be a day of tears. There should be anger, too. Righteous anger at the kind of evil that causes sorrow this deep, and at the federal failure and political stalemate that has left our border unsecured and our Border Patrol in harm's way."