Union: Border agents opened fire on each other
by BOB CHRISTIE,Associated Press
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Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie is seen in this undated photo provided by the Ivie family.(AP Photo/Ivie Family, Cole Kynaston)
Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie is seen in this undated photo provided by the Ivie family.(AP Photo/Ivie Family, Cole Kynaston)
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PHOENIX (AP) — The head of the Border Patrol agents union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire.

National Border Patrol Council president George McCubbin said Sunday that the two sets of agents approached an area where a sensor had been activated. He says they arrived from different directions early Tuesday when Agent Nicholas Ivie opened fire.

Acting Cochise County Sheriff Rod Rothrock confirmed the scenario but would not say if Ivie was the first to shoot.

The shooting happened a few miles north of the border with Mexico, in a well-known smuggling area.

The FBI announced Friday that the shooting appeared to be a case of friendly fire.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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