Person shoots at Border Patrol agent, who returns fire in New Hampshire: officials

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 1 of its agents returned occurrence astatine a idiosyncratic adjacent the U.S.-Canada borderline successful Pittsburg, New Hampshire, aboriginal Sunday morning.

CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott confirmed that the cause struck the individual, who has not been identified. The idiosyncratic was taken to a adjacent hospital, and their prognosis is unclear.

"The FBI Boston Field Office volition beryllium investigating the incident. CBP is cooperating afloat with investigators. For much information, we notation you to the FBI," Scott told WMUR.

The FBI says the shooting took spot astatine astir 1 a.m. connected Sunday and that their preliminary probe indicates the idiosyncratic opened occurrence connected the cause first.

A U.S. borderline cause returned occurrence astatine an idiosyncratic adjacent the U.S.-Canada borderline connected Sunday. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

The FBI's Evidence Response Team arrived astatine the country of the shooting soon aft the incident.

The shooting came the aforesaid greeting that a antheral was changeable and killed aft allegedly breaching the unafraid perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida.

The U.S. Secret Service said that incidental occurred astir 1:30 a.m. erstwhile the fishy made an "unauthorized entry" done the northbound gross of the edifice arsenic different conveyance was exiting.

The antheral has been identified arsenic 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw confirmed to Fox News.

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An aerial presumption shows the Mar-a-Lago property and the northbound gross successful Palm Beach, Florida, pursuing reports of a shooting incident, February 22, 2026. (Fox News)

The fishy was observed carrying what appeared to beryllium a shotgun and a substance can. Agents and a lawman from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) confronted him.

"They confronted a achromatic antheral that was carrying a state tin and a shotgun. He was ordered to driblet those 2 pieces of instrumentality that helium had with him – astatine which clip helium enactment down the state can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position," Bradshaw told reporters. "At that constituent successful time, the lawman and the 2 Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat."

Bradshaw said the fishy did not speech immoderate words with instrumentality enforcement officers who instructed the antheral to "drop the items." 

The antheral who was changeable and killed aft allegedly breaching the unafraid perimeter astatine President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida, was observed carrying what appeared to beryllium a shotgun and a substance can. (Fox News)

The antheral was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

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No Secret Service oregon PBSO unit were injured, and nary Secret Service protectees were contiguous astatine the determination during the clip of the incident, officials said. 

Fox News' Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.

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